Quotes About Poverty

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

Poverty and War have no excuse.

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades.

But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.

Poor people! No territory invasion can broaden their narrow minds.

Death is buried there into death Hunger strikes on its own last breathNo spine to shiver, no heart talks At life's craving poverty mocksFrom the poem 'Exhumation

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.