Poverty Quotes

Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what the country has to offer.

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

I just hated poverty.

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.

Poverty is the center of the Gospel.

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index.

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.