Poverty Quotes · Page 102

Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

— Mother Teresa

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

— Kay Granger

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

— William Cobbett

“Anything anybody has was purchased with the currency of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

— Loretta Lynn

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

— Anonymous

Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of…

— Melvin B. Tolson

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the…

— Thomas Paine

Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law…

— Opal Tometi

India needs fresh thinking and quick decision-making to get out of the stifling bind of its galloping population and deadly poverty.

— Sucheta Dalal

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

— Juvenal

One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics…

— Evgeny Morozov

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue,…

— Jim Wallis

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

— Nicholas Johnson

“The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don’t have to ask…

— Trevor Noah

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is…

— John Mackey

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in…

— Rick Bragg

“Despite claims that these radical policy changes were driven by fiscal conservatism...the reality is that government was not reducing the amount of…

— Michelle Alexander

“On all levels and in every aspect of our society, the poor are rejected, mistreated, and forced more deeply into their poverty.…

— Frank Schaeffer

“Success, just like poverty is a state of mind. You can become successful instantly with a simple decision and commitment. Long lasting…

— Bryant McGill

“In your life, some people need you to show up as the best version of yourself so you can provide security or…

— Nate Green

Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep…

— Juan Somavia

“Those who are great know a secret that the remaining lot do not know.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

— John Lyly

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

— John Dryden

“Become great by converting your time into quality product.”

— Sunday Adelaja

With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.

— Robert Pollok

Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare

— Tony Juniper

We came from nothing, from the raw poverty of Trenchtown.

— Rita Marley

I was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Looking back now, it was poverty really.

— Leon Edwards

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

— Abhijit Banerjee

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

— Hugo Chavez

It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“All men have been given time, but only a few men know its value.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

— Rita Mae Brown

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

— Pearl S. Buck

“Anytime that cannot be accounted for is a wasted time.”

— Sunday Adelaja