Quotes About Poverty

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.

Multiculturalism helps immigrants postpone the pain of letting go of the anachronistic and inappropriate. It locks people into corrupt, inefficient, and unjust social systems, even if it does preserve their arts and crafts. It perpetuates poverty, misery, and abuse.

Bir balta için bunca ç?rp?nmas? salt cimriliÄŸinden deÄŸil, yoksulluÄŸundand?; e cimriliÄŸi de yoksulluÄŸundan ya!

Sandalyenin üstünde baÄŸdaÅŸ kurup yazd???m, belki okurlara ilginç gelebilir. ÇocukluÄŸumda, yoksul evimizde hep baÄŸdaÅŸ kurarak oturduÄŸum için, bu al??kanl?k o zamandan kalmad?r.

Poor are poor because rich are rich.

La suya era una de las familias más pobres del pueblo, una de las más apreciadas por su honestidad y su modestia y además porque siempre son más queridas las familias pobres que las ricas.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

Concerning the materials of seditions. It is a thing well to be considered; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell, whence the spark shall come, that shall set it on fire. The matter of seditions is of two kinds: much poverty, and much discontentment. It is certain, so many overthrown estates, so many votes for troubles.

Sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor, and follow me: but, sell not all thou hast, except thou come and follow me; that is, except thou have a vocation, wherein thou mayest do as much good, with little means as with great; for otherwise, in feeding the streams, thou driest the fountain.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

Hispanics don't want more programs to make them comfortable in their poverty. What Hispanics really want is more opportunity: the freedom to work, leave poverty behind, and rise into the ranks of the middle class and beyond.

I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.

China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in world poverty.

I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.

Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources.

'The Little Rascals' was set against the background of the Great Depression: the characters were living in poverty. It's just that it wasn't focused on it. It was focused on what makes childhood universal. We're all laughing at kids because we see ourselves in them; we remember our childhood.

The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping birth rate.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

Yes, there's a higher rate of people living below the poverty line who aren't vaccinated. But it's much rarer for that to be a product of choice than a product of circumstance.

What we know is that when girls don't go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they're more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.