Quotes About Poverty

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

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.

For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.

What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.

Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.