Poverty Quotes

Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind, every injustice a false note to avoid in the harmony of the spheres.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

Poverty would always exist when we allow injustices to speak.

Leaders should never alienate themselves from the poor, if their main aim is to alleviate poverty.

You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.

When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.

Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

Poverty must be erased by hard work.

No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.

The difference between poverty and prosperity is the mindset of living out of necessity instead of possibility.

We eat junk because it's cheap and it lights up the pleasure centers of our brain. And we do drugs because it's an effective way to feel good or escape something.

We are well, ' Efuru replied. 'It is only hunger.''It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?

I don't, when I think of a city, think of these people, people with very little who are content with that. That is, I think about poverty and culture and traffic and pollution and crime...

Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.

I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were - how much industry and energy described their lives.

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them.

Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.

Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in four dedicates over 70 percent to paying the rent and keeping the lights on.

Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.

The focus of innovations and investments need to shift from slogging innovations like phone and, drone type innovations to solve real problems that are killing the inhabitants of the planet.

Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.

In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions.

Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation.

If the pocket goes dry but the mind is fertile, awake and plant something noble in the mind and you shall surely reap something noble in the end, no matter what!

There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.

This is a nation that professes to be a Christian nation, " [Suelo] tells me, surveying his temporary kingdom. "And yet it's basically illegal to live according to the teachings of Jesus.

The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.

the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.

If you refuse to deal with time today, time will deal with you tomorrow.

The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.

You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

A poor man is a living dead one.

One of the major destruction of man is distraction

I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.

It is bad enough when rich Christians show little concern for the poor, but when they moan about their lot, they show contempt not only for the poor but also for the generosity of God.

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.

Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.

Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)

And then I sez—‘How is anybody a-goin’ to live pattern lives, when they are a-starvin' to death? And how is anybody a-goin’ to enjoy religion when they are a-chokin’?

Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!

My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.