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Quotes About Poverty

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows, Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.
~ William Shakespeare, King Lear
In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.
~ Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.
~ Unknown
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
~ Pericles
It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty
~ Ela Bhatt
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
~ Cat Stevens
Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.
~ Unknown
If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are the makers of such things.
~ Unknown
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
~ Irwin Redlener
The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.
~ Bill Vaughan
A ni... so broke these days sumbody rob me they just be practicing.
~ Chris Tucker
Ain't nothing worse than a broke a.. ni....
~ Unknown
If being broke is a joke then you a funny ni....
~ Unknown
Broke ni... make me sick, throw up.
~ Unknown
50% of the people who always talk about money is broke as hell.
~ Unknown
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Being broke makes me depressed, dat sht s only natural..
~ Unknown
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
~ Mother Teresa
A poor man experiences life more than a rich man lifestyle.
~ Unknown
Poverty should not accumulate to just absence of food: Sometimes its the absence of our ability to ignore other irrelevant desires.
~ Unknown
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
~ Mae West
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
~ Mae West
I've been rich and I've been poor, and rich is better.
~ Mae West