Quotes About Poverty

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What, then, are the easily identifiable factors that lead to lower income mobility for black Americans? First, lack of fathers in the home: single motherhood is one of the most powerful predictors of intergenerational poverty.

Inequality by itself does not imply creation of poverty.

Abolishing private property means the unlimited right to redistribute wealth. "If the cause of poverty is the grossly unequal distribution of the world's wealth, then to end poverty, and with it the population crisis, we must redistribute that wealth, among nations and within them," says far-left Professor Barry Commoner.

Most economists oppose minimum wage laws, but that never prevents the laws from being written. The living wage movement lives on, not because of any merit, but because it's a popular political move to back anything that "helps the poor.

If the wealthiest segment of the population has no money, who gives the poor their jobs? The government? There's a name for that economic philosophy—communism.

By 1980 8.2% of American suburbanites (7.4 million people) lived below the poverty line; over the next two decades the figure doubled, meaning that impoverished suburbanites outnumbered poor people in the inner city. Murders fell in American cities by 16.7% but rose by 16.9% in the suburbs.

Pero tú y tus amigas rara vez os acercáis a un pobre para saber de su misma boca la causa de su miseria... ni para observar qué clase de miseria le aqueja, pues hay algunas tan extraordinarias, que no se alivian con la fácil limosna del ochavo... ni tampoco con el mendrugo de pan....

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR.

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

At the working man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.

I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.