Poverty Quotes
The church wanted us to give out food to malnourished children, but they didn't want us to question why they were malnourished to begin with.
How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.
Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences.
A thousand pounds for clothes--when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter!
The poor commit villainies because they are poor or because they have no alternative employment. But the rich do them in order to enjoy themselves more or to earn more money.
Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.
She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes.
By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.
We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.
A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.
Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.
During times of need, it was always the people with the least to give who ended up sacrificing the most.
Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.
The absence of knowledge of the truths about money leads to poverty and financial slavery.
To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness.
Life’s mystery continued to trouble meA question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult?
The poor stay poor here because they do not save enough.
I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.
Lopez made sandals out of one tire. He sold them at ten cents each, because people sometimes needed only one.
Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!
A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.
Amidst the crowd, tumbling like a stone, although lying on the roads, I’m but a life.
When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.
When they think about Africa, they think about War, Poverty, Hunger and Diseases.
Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul
The fastest and cheapest way to eradicate poverty is not by giving food but by giving hope, love, and education.
Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.
Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.
When an officer finds themselves arresting pastors that are feeding people who have nothing, they should know they’re on the wrong side.
When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.
While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.
The greatest sorrow in the life of a peasant is that his donkey is lost. And the greatest happiness is that he finds it back.
The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.
The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.
We won't let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We'll kill poverty through education.
Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white?
An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.
You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.
The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.