Poverty Quotes · Page 76

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

— Matthew Desmond

You no wins, callin the field up and the drama done build up and this poverty's the cards that they dealed us.

— D Block

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

— Charles Lamb

“Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine providence.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Knowledge is wealth, wisdom is treasure, understanding is riches, and ignorance is poverty.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

— Muhammad Yunus

The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.

— Victor Hugo

“When you succeed in showing the real products that this disappearing life has produced, then you are said to be a winner.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life!…

— T. B. Joshua

“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we…

— Jerry Ash

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty,…

— Michel Onfray

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are…

— Adam Schiff

Many trans women of color come from poverty and are forced to live on the streets. Their families have shunned them, and…

— Sean Baker

“Our world is structured in such a way that you will be ignorant and unaware of the fact that your life is…

— Sunday Adelaja

So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which…

— Mike Huckabee

Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even…

— P. J. O'Rourke

If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Have the people living here under untroubled circumstances and at so great a distance from the wars of others been afflicted with…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam…

— Bill Moyers

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every…

— Jay-Z

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of…

— Aristotle

“Only a man who is exceptionally skillful can stand before kings.”

— Sunday Adelaja

When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference; differences in the world will be made

— Kellie Elmore

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

— Michael Pollan

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

— Johann Lamont

“Convert your time into solutions for the problems of the world and your immediate neighborhood.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

— Desmond Tutu

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

— Muhammad Yunus

If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves.

— Scott Aaronson

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

— Dorothy Day

“If you waste a minute, you have wasted life and if you waste an hour, you have wasted life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

— Lewis Thompson Preston

“The poor man is poor because he will not heed instruction.”

— Fred C. White

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

— Euripides

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

— Benjamin Franklin

The day will end world poverty! Will initiate a disaster, as the last day of the world?

— Mak_786