Quotes About Poverty

A criança trabalhava do amanhecer ao anoitecer, e à noite chorava no canto da cabana que chamávamos de lar. Quando a menina chorava demais Lunete batia nela, e quando eu tentava defender a menina Lunete me batia.

Poor as an honest lawyer.

Descobri em minha longa vida que a maioria dos homens da Igreja prega os méritos da pobreza enquanto corre atrás da riqueza. Adoram dinheiro, e a Igreja atrai dinheiro como uma vela atrai mariposas.

If] we wish to diminish the love of money which, we are told, is the root of all evil, the first step must be the creation of a system in which everyone has enough and no one has too much.

En aÅŸa?? tasar?lar?m?z ve yoksulluÄŸumuz kadar,çirkinlikte, bizim özel giriÅŸim kâr?na köle olmak için ödediÄŸimiz fiyat?n bir bölümüdür.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Do not forget the lives of Your poor people forever. Consider the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of violence. Psalm 74:19–20

Didn't God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom He has promised to those who love Him? James 2:5

I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our foreign policy. When they're educated, they tend to give back more to their communities, to rise out of poverty in a way that is good for their families and their communities and, ultimately, their countries.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

Work requirements offer opportunities to lifting individuals out of poverty, empower them with the dignity of work and self-reliability while also allowing states to control the costs of their Medicaid programs. They also assist people to gain the skills necessary for long-term independence and success.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research.

My government is giving residential, health facilities to poor as poverty can be removed only by empowering them.

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

Most of the characters in 'The Little Rascals' were living in poverty, but they decided to focus on the joy of being a kid: the humor, the heart, the resilience.

I knew what it was to be poor... my mother worried about putting food on the table. I knew what it was to feel excluded and shut out, but I also knew what it was to experience love and generosity.

Too often, low-income Americans must choose between paying for medicine and having their heat shut off.

My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to school and graduated as class valedictorian - the only one of her seven siblings to finish high school. She became a librarian and then a United Methodist minister.

Sometimes we didn't eat, we could not buy food for six siblings... That's how it was.