Quotes About Poverty

immigrant poor, said Douglass, that "slavery is the only power that can prevent the laboring white man from falling to the level of the slave's poverty and degradation.

you have nothing

That's what it's like being poor—choices are something you sit around and dream about having, some day after you strike it rich.

What is it with rich people thinking they can starve the poor into good behavior?

There's more than enough for the many, but somehow never enough for the few

Sometimes I helps a few of the other girls out," she told him, raising her chin. "Long Bet needed new boots last week, and Mary Jane lacked a few shillings to renting her own room. She's got a snug little place of her own, just around the corner," she added. The dreams in this part of the city were as small and pinched as the faces. Four walls to call one's own. A hot meal, a pair of shoes with sound soles.

There are so many people in the world with so little. Who cares why you decide to help?

We won't let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We'll kill poverty through education.

Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is?

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

The best investment for poverty elimination is education.

Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will.

When prayer replace work then poverty takes over

Go to the poor: you will find God.

The World of Today, Few People have Everything while Many People have Nothing.

Poverty comes from the poverty of positive thoughts and creative ideas.

The life of an unhappy rich person is poorer than a happy beggar.

Bengal is poor not because of lack of capital but lack of ideas and vision.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge