Poverty Quotes · Page 63

It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.

— Jack Monroe

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

— William Hazlitt

“Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

— Matthew Desmond

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

— Ronald Reagan

“There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.”

— Heinrich Harrer

So many people who desire poverty get it quickly, but those who desire wealth never have it.

— Vikrant Parsai

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you…

— Wangari Maathai

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me…

— Naveen Jain

If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in…

— Richard Baxter

Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service…

— Saint Francis de Sales

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do…

— William Law

I have learnt a lot about the challenges children face - poverty, inequality and their difficulties in accessing basic services.

— Choi Si-won

God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“When you’re poor and hungry and frightened of failure, you often don’t have the luxury of high values, lofty goals, and social…

— Rodney Romig

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

— Charles Spurgeon

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories…

— Charles Fourier

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Is this a holy thing to see, In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Feed with cold and usurous…

— William Blake

“So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me ‘arch priestess of…

— Helen Keller

Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars.…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.”

— Susan Eaton

“By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.”

— Anonymous

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

— Noel Gallagher

Rich people associate with rich and successful people. Poor people will associate with poor people.

— Anonymous

If You Are Born Poor Than This Is not Your mistake But If you Die Poor Than This Is Your Mistake.

— Anonymous

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

— Darynda Jones

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

— Charles Dickens

“To reproduce your life is to convert it into tangible products for the benefit of humanity.”

— Sunday Adelaja

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

— Louise Bernikow

“Light's all very well, brothers, but it's not easy to live with.”

— Mikhail Zoshchenko

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

— Chanakya

Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love

— Pope Francis

“Poverty and mistakes are setbacks but you should never allow them to make you give up on your dreams.”

— Timothy Pina

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

— John Steinbeck

“The rest of the trailer reeked of cat piss and abject poverty.”

— Ernest Cline