Quotes About Poverty

There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.