Quotes About Poverty

It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.

Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.

Being an altruist I have an urge in mylife to help poor's but im not Bill Gates

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]