Quotes About Poverty

"Do not take a pair of millstones – not even the upper one – as security for a debt, because that would be taking a man's livelihood as security."

"They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge."

"The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."

"He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor."

"…My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi…"

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.

"He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins."

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you've probably already done something very, very wrong.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough

Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. The crisis of this line of thought is the realization that we are at once limited and unendingly responsible for what we know and do.

The Georgians were not noted for their kindness to animals and children. Many children were forced to work in the mills, scale chimneys, beg on the streets or live by prostitution from the age of ten or less