Quotes About Poverty

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

True poverty does not come from God.

The worst fear that I have about this people is that they will get rich in this country, forget God and his people, wax fat, and kick themselves out of the Church and go to hell. This people will stand mobbing, robbing, poverty and all manner of persecution, and be true. My greater fear for them is that they cannot stand wealth; and yet they have to be tried with riches, for they will become the richest people on this earth.

My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.

That is the real tragedy: poverty and hunger are not as shocking as willful indifference to them.

She did not know it, but she was actually in despair at the poverty of human emotions. Was it not irrational that there was nothing to do except weep when ten people died, just as one wept for but a single person?

Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.

Starving children have no liberties.

Today, the richest 1 percent own half the world's wealth. Even more alarmingly, the richest one hundred people together own more than the poorest four billion.

Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance. Those once victimised by history are likely to be victimised yet again. And those whom history has privileged are more likely to be privileged again.

without a social safety net and a modicum of economic equality, liberty is meaningless.

There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it is because some politician wants them

Such vicious circles can go on for centuries and even millennia, perpetuating an imagined hierarchy that sprang from a chance historical occurrence. Unjust discrimination often gets worse, not better, with time. Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance. Those once victimised by history are likely to be victimised yet again. And those whom history has privileged are more likely to be privileged again.

Pro-immigrationists seem to think that countries have a moral duty to accept not just refugees but also people from poverty-stricken lands who seek jobs and a better future.

Unjust discrimination often gets worse, not better, with time. Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance. Those once victimised by history are likely to be victimised yet again. And those whom history has privileged are more likely to be privileged again.