Quotes About Poverty

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellowman, either by a considerable gift, or a sum of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood, and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and the summit of charity's golden ladder.

January 7 arrived and looked like January 7. The streets were full of gray, frozen people without money.

It is an ironic fact that while half the world's population is dying as a result of diseases of poverty (largely starvation and infection) the other half is succumbing to diseases of affluence.

People who can see their neighbors with air-conditioning and cars, but who themselves live in shacks and often lack sewage disposal or a reliable water supply, have little to lose, and may find violence a rational option.

They taught us to manage money and how to et a good price for our eggs, chickens or pigs. We used to know how to do that -- we weren't dumb; but since we never had any surplus, we had no money to manage. The only money we ever saw went right past us; no sooner had we earned a few cents than they were spent on aspirin . . . those kinds of things.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

a public event designed to be an interfaith dialogue between Muslims and Christians. Three preachers walked out in protest when Malcolm criticized the wealth of some African-American churches and the poverty of their worshippers.

O BICHO VI ONTEM um bicho Na imundície do pátio Catando comida entre os detritos. Quando achava alguma coisa, Não examinava nem cheirava: Engolia com voracidade. O bicho não era um cão, Não era um gato, Não era um rato. O bicho, meu Deus, era um homem.

João Gostoso era carregador de feira livre e morava no morro da Babilônia num barracão sem número Uma noite ele chegou no bar Vinte de Novembro Bebeu Cantou Dançou Depois se atirou na lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas e morreu afogado.

L'unica terra gratis che hanno i poveri è quella delle unghie.

We really have to ask for indispensable things, but when we do it with humility, we are not failing in the commandment of Jesus; on the contrary, we are acting like the poor who extend their hand [10] to receive what is necessary for them; if they are rebuked they are not surprised, as no one owes them anything.

If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.

The poor have been doubly impoverished by the ugliness that surrounds them.

The income ratio of the one-fifth of the world's population in the wealthiest countries to the one-fifth in the poorest went from 30 to 1 in 1960 to 74 to 1 in 1995.3 The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitation services, and basic education to every person on the planet.4

Is anyone in the U.S. innocent? Although those at the very pinnacle of the economic pyramid gain the most, millions of us depend—either directly or indirectly—on the exploitation of the LDCs for our livelihoods. The resources and cheap labor that feed nearly all our businesses come from places like Indonesia, and very little ever makes its way back.

The modern slave trader assures himself (or herself) that the desperate people are better off earning one dollar a day than no dollars at all, and that they are receiving the opportunity to become integrated into the larger world community.

The rich get richer and the poor grow poorer. Yet, from a statistical standpoint, this is recorded as economic progress.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

The rich and the poor have met, God is their light.

It does not cost money only. It costs degradation. You do not merely employ these people. You also tread upon them.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.