Quotes About Poverty

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window.

Defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long.

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites.

The poor shall never cease out of the land.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?

The poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb.

They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.

The poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

She was poor but she was honest,And her parents was the same,Till she met a city feller,And she lost her honest name.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker.

Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man's house.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

what thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty, thoughtful poor people call with equal justice a problem of riches.

On a standard-of-living approach it may be legitimate to set different poverty lines for men and women, on the grounds that women have on average smaller nutritional needs, and this was indeed the case with the US official poverty line in its early years. The poverty line for 1963 set by Mollie Orshansky for non-farmers under the age of sixty-five was $1,650 a year for a single man but only $1,525 for a single woman.

Dutch trade continued to decline, and poverty was widespread - perhaps 700,000 out of the total 2 million inhabitants in the northern provinces were dependent on charity. Colonies of distressed city folk were founded in the peat districts of Groningen and Friesland. People emigrated in larger numbers than ever before to North America.

Werner and his younger sister, Jutta, are raised at Children's House, a clinker-brick two-story orphanage on Viktoriastrasse whose rooms are populated with the coughs of sick children and the crying of newborns and battered trunks inside which drowse the last possessions of deceased parents: patchwork dresses, tarnished wedding cutlery, faded ambrotypes of fathers swallowed by the mines.

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very wise man once defined charity in the following way. He said it was poor people in rich countries giving money to rich people in poor countries