Poverty Quotes

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.