Quotes About Poverty

When the middle class constitutes only 20–30 percent of the population, it may side with antidemocratic forces because it fears the intentions of the large mass of poor people below it and the populist policies they may pursue.

Este error en la entrega postal se produjo debido a la forma en que los incentivos económicos se entrelazan con los problemas de identidad en el comportamiento humano. Ser pobre es ser invisible a ojos de los demás seres humanos, y la indignidad de la invisibilidad resulta a menudo peor que la falta de recursos.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

There are 1.3 billion human beings in the world who subsist on less than a dollar a day and have yet to make their first phone call, let alone send an email. Is

El clasismo es una forma de violencia muy cabrona aquí en México. Es más: la misma POBREZA es una forma de violencia que los ricos imponen a los marginados de muchas formas [...]

México está atravesando por una etapa regresiva que podría llevar a nuestro sistema de salud a los años ochenta del siglo pasado y echar por tierra los logros de varias generaciones de médicos y enfermeras, poniendo en riesgo la salud y la seguridad financiera de la población más pobre del país.

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.

At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth. p 290

Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Christianity should have taken up the cause of the poor; better yet, it should have identified with the poor. Instead, during almost the entire course of history, the Church has served as a prop of the powerful and has been on the side of exploiters and states.

On all levels and in every aspect of our society, the poor are rejected, mistreated, and forced more deeply into their poverty. Christianity should have taken up the cause of the poor; better yet, it should have identified with the poor. Instead, during almost the entire course of its history, the Church has served as a prop of the powerful and has been on the side of exploiters and states

ignorance about the Supreme Being is worse poverty than ignorance about any of the lesser beings He has created of nothing.

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

I see one-third of a nation ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished...the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those that have too little