Quotes About Poverty

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

I have been rich, and I have been poor. Believe me baby, rich is better!

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

Poverty need not shut us out from showing hospitality.

El que teme verdaderamente a Dios preferirá trabajar noche y día y comer su pan en la pobreza antes que satisfacer un afán de ganancias que oprimiría a la viuda y a los huérfanos, o despojaría al extraño de su derecho

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

Andrew Young, a former U.S. Congressman and U.N. ambassador turned Wal-Mart spokesman, seemed to offer an explanation: "Poverty in America," he said, "is market potential unrealized." It seems that the poor benefit the discounting industry far more than the discounting industry benefits the poor.

For most homeless women, then, jobs by themselves were not a way out of homelessness, even if one discounted the large number of women who were too old, too sick, or otherwise too disabled to work.

She had never before understood that loneliness doesn't come from nowhere. It follows moments in which one's own poverty was exposed. Not lack of money, but lack of love.

Consequently, there are produced very valiant fighters… not softened by any overindulgence in fruits… the Danes… are just as poor… Poverty has forced them thus to go all over the world and from piratical raids they bring home in great abundance the riches of the lands.

In this way they bear up under the unfruitfulness of their own country. Since accepting Christianity, however… they have already learnt… to be content with, their poverty…

A slack hand causes poverty. But the hand of the diligent makes rich (Proverbs 10:4). That is what the scripture says. So, it is up to you. Do you prefer to keep to your pride and then end up achieving nothing? Or are you ready to swallow your pride and then emerge a success eventually? The choice is always yours. But, never forget. The collision of preparation and opportunity is what generates an offspring called genuine success. -Emeasoba George

Hope is synonymous with expectation. In the sense that, whatever you earnestly expect is what you will experience. So what has been your hope all these while? Whatever/however, you've got to hope for riches never poverty, hope for success never failure, hope for greatness never commonness, hope for salvation never damnation.

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.

As Nic said, second-hand clothes were like day drinking, government handouts and having a lawyer: classy if you're rich, proof you're trash if you're poor.

If the first work of the poor voters is to try to create a "poor man's paradise," as poor men are apt to fancy that Paradise, and as they are apt to think they can create it, the great political trial now beginning will simply fail. The wide gift of the elective franchise will be a great calamity to the whole nation, and to those who gain it as great a calamity as to any.

Indeed there must have been a very deep-seated dissatisfaction with life, a very intense thirst of heart, and an almost absolute poverty of thought, to secure the acceptance of the Christian absurdity, the most audacious and monstrous of all religious absurdities.

What, in a given country, is the lowest possible wage? It is the price of that which is considered by the proletarians of that country as absolutely necessary to keep oneself alive.

To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need.

In any of the world's cities, on a winter night, a boy can be bought for the price of a beer and the promise of warm blankets.

A force of circumstance is not poverty merely but color.

Few things in this world trouble people more than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and indeed it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence, and temperance is a certain cure.