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.

There are millions more people living in poverty today than the day that Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton at his side, stepped into the oval office.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

Only FREEDOM has ever been the answer to poverty.

One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.

The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

Our nation is rich and our people can be rich. 2014 elections is a fight against poverty.

We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.

The government would devote all its effort to empower the poor and give them strength to fight poverty. Skill development would be accompanied by the spirit of Shrameva Jayate.

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.

Today the situation in India is such that we should make the poor strong so that they become partners in defeating poverty.

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

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

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

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

I shall not accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need.

I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

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

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.

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