Quotes About Poverty

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

As she sat in the House Committee anteroom waiting to testify, she looked out the window and was startled by the contrast between Capitol Hill's marble government buildings, surrounded by manicured grounds, and the rows of tumbledown houses occupied by the city's Negro population. The children were barefoot and dressed in rags. "They all looked rachitic and most seemed undernourished. All they had to play with was junk they found in the street.

Being without one's family is the worst poverty

Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

By helping investors create jobs in Africa and Asia we will help lift millions out of poverty.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.

No, Islam did not lift American blacks out of poverty; capitalism did that.

Look what we did with Cuba. You isolate a country, and all you do is impoverish that country.

We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better.

In Ivory Coast it's very hard to have normal shoes, so just imagine football boots - they were considered a true luxury.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

Holding people presumed to be innocent in jail pre-trial simply because they cannot afford to pay their bail extracts huge human and financial costs.

Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

I mean, you can forget about George Bush or Jerry Falwell. You can't forget about a homeless kid.

The first remedy or prevention is to remove, by all means possible, that material cause of sedition whereof we spake; which is, want and poverty in the estate.

Jesus died with nothing at all and preached that the poor are blessed. He condemned those who have riches and are content that others remain poor.