Quotes About Poverty

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.

To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.

We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

Offering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alienation, and loneliness.

Making women into small business owners, factory workers, and heads of households, not participants & leaders of collective social movements or activists demanding more accountability of the World Trade Organization, the IMF or the World Bank, these institutions maintain control over the economic growth and development of these countries and provide access to cheap labor, mineral resources, and military bases for the global north while the women themselves remain at or below poverty level.

The poor are not property owners, so the democrats ignored them. The nationalists did not. Not

she had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor.

but she had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor.

Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

Real slum kids with runny noses.

Do any of those people in their warm and cozy living rooms have any idea what kind of life a beggar leads? Do any of those "good" and "kind" people ever wonder about the lives of so many of the children and adults around them? Granted, everyone has given a coin to a beggar at some time or another, though they usually just shove it into his hand and slam the door.

Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world?

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

She quoted the Reverend James Forbes as saying, "Nobody gets into heaven without a letter of reference from the poor.

The crossing sweeper, a boy of about eight or nine years, was still busily pushing manure out of the way to make a clean path for any pedestrian who wished to reach the other side. He seemed to be one of those cheerful souls willing to make the best out of any situation. His skimpy trousers stuck to his legs, his coat was too long for him and gaped around the neck, but his enormous cap seemed to keep most of the rain off his head, except for