Quotes About Poverty

If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

The covetous man is always poor.

Poor and content is rich and rich enough.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much.

He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.

He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich.

Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Real freedom must include economic security.