Quotes About Poverty

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.

The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

the poverty still far too common in rural South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi has meant significantly more social spending coming to those states—federal taxpayer dollars, of course—than to any other region of the United States.

Black saw the connection between crime and poverty.

Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant that we ran rather than loitered. Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes--to me a beatitude--is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women--or men--can suffer is to be bereft of their past.

When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation's slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).

Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free.

A sales tax is the enemy of the poor person. It is the enemy of the elderly couple who live on fixed income. And it is the enemy of the everyday American consumer, poor or not. (From Voices of Multicultural America)