Quotes About Poverty

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...