Quotes About Poverty

Since patriarchy is the perpetual poorhouse in which women are stored/restored, afflicted with poverty of spirit, imagination, intellect, passion, physical vigor, as well as economic poverty, it is clear - and clearer than ever - that we have basically Nothing to loose.

The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

Brightmist. It's one of the poorest quarters. Don't let the name fool you. Nothing bright about it. Garvin was wrong. There was at least one bright thing about it. -Jase

Don't you care that your neighbors are suffering?" "In a word, no. The Bible says that the poor will always be with us, and if Jesus couldn't change that, I certainly can't.

a half-dollar's worth will sometimes do for the poor what hundreds of dollars may fail to do for the rich; it makes them happy and grateful

All suffered, but not equally, for the greatest damage was borne by the poor, whose despair and anger had fueled the Commune

As for alcoholism among the poor, there had been no one who had dramatized the problem more graphically than he, but he saw alcoholism as a result, not simply a cause, of the social evils that the poor suffered.

She waved me to a plaid couch in the middle of the living room floor. I eased down and looked around the sorry place. The odor of stale turnip greens was so thick, it seemed like it was seeping through the walls. Every piece of furniture looked like it belonged in the city dump, especially a chair with no legs facing the couch...If Betty Jean hadn't been so cheerful, I would have felt sorry for her.

I knocked on the gates of heaven and saint peter said,"we are not ready for you, Mother Teresa.You are needed in the slums.There are no slums up here.

Jails and prisons are unique medical ecosystems. Many of the people who end up there are already in shaky health from drug use, marginal living conditions, or poverty. Plus, the conditions inside jails and prisons—crowded, with little access to health care—exacerbate the spread of infection.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

How can poverty be alleviated? When nobody eats until everyone eats at the same time.

Life is a gift for the wise, a playground for the foolish, a heaven for the rich, and a hell for the poor.

Poor boy - leaves moon-viewing for rice-grinding.

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

Cities try to shame us into action, as they know stillness is the preserve of the destitute, the dangerous, the dead.

Through plague and war, poverty, desperation, crime- all of it- there is still art, Emile. Wonder casts a spell over all living creatures, great and small. Kist look at the skies at night and imagine what could be. Art, science, imagination... all create wonder.

To continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies; one, largely Negro and poor, located in the central cities; the other, predominantly white and affluent, located in the suburbs and in outlying areas.

We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

Ironically, the very brokest people in America, Hispanic immigrants, are one of America's last great cash crops.

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we've developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship. And the one condition, it turns out, is money. If you have a lot of it, the legal road you get to travel is well lit and beautifully maintained. If you don't, it's a dark alley and most Americans would be shocked to find out what's at the end of it.

Bill Clinton's political formula for seizing the presidency was simple. He made money tight in the ghettos and let it flow free on Wall Street. He showered the projects with cops and bean counters and pulled the cops off the beat in the financial services sector. And in one place he created vast new mountain ranges of paperwork, while in another, paperwork simply vanished.

Images of poor, inarticulate people are disturbing to audiences, especially upscale ones (read: people with disposable incomes who can respond to advertising). That's why we don't show poverty on TV unless we're laughing at it (Honey Boo Boo) or chasing it in squad cars (Cops).