Poverty Quotes

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.