Poverty Quotes

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

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

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

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

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.

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

For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

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.

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.

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.

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

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.

Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.

I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty.

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.

Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

I want to model generosity and touch poverty.

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.