Quotes About Poverty

There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

It's absolutely true we have to pay attention to whether low-income people of any race are able to access quality, higher education.

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.

I came from a poor Pennsylvania coal mining family and the only way I was going to get an education was through an athletic scholarship.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

Many inherited disorders can perpetuate poverty by leading to disabilities that disrupt people's ability to work. In turn, someone's capacity to secure an effective new cure for these diseases can mean the difference between a life led productively, or one plagued by infirmity.

I would like to share something that is being done extremely well by Bill Gates through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation is only going to address areas which are seen by Bill or Melinda as ills of the world. The foundation has no perpetuity.

God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood; God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests.

An empty stomach knows no morality.

The civilised labourer who gives his best effort for a bit of bread, who builds a palace and sleeps in a stable, who weaves rich fabrics and dresses in rags, and who produces everything and does without everything, is not free.

I must say that I recognized at once that we had never understood the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: Justice, equity, liberty; that concerning each of these principles our ideas have been utterly obscure; and, in fact, that this ignorance was the sole cause, both of the poverty that devours us, and of all the calamities that have ever afflicted the human race.

Opowie?? o m?odo?ci W?adys?awa Gomu?ki przypomina socrealistyczn? nowelk?. Bieda a? piszczy i z tej biedy rodzi si? proletariacka ?wiadomo??.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.