Poverty Quotes
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.
While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.
I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.
We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.
Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.
There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.
The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.
The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.
Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.
The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.
Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.
People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.
The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.
Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.
Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.
It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon.
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty