Poverty Quotes · Page 101

“If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.”

— Stephen Richards

Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it.

— Rajnath Singh

“The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

— John Burns

Viva Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere! ... Pusha da button!

— Giuseppe Zangara

“If you don’t want to regret your life late, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

— Peter Piot

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

— Anonymous

“The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s…

— Trevor Noah

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on…

— Nicholas Stern

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

— Pamela Moore

“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread…

— Henry Ford

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes…

— Oscar Wilde

Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global…

— Angus Deaton

We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through…

— Park Chung-hee

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education.…

— Gough Whitlam

[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.…

— Thomas Frank

“I've never understood it,' continued Wilfred Carr, yawning. 'It's not in my line at all; I never had enough money for my…

— W.W. Jacobs

“In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with…

— Joseph Pulitzer

My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a…

— Karin Slaughter

The country is in the worst conditions ever in its history. It's unjustifiable that in a country with the largest petroleum reserves…

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

“Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.”

— JSB Morse

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

— Jim Talent

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

— Anonymous

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

— Matthew Desmond

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

— Eric Alterman

Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

— Adam Cohen

“Hard work is one of the greatest principles which I have carefully guided my life by.”

— Sunday Adelaja

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Poverty is no religion in the world. They need support for growth only.”

— Sujit Kumar Mishra

A poor man humbles himself before God... but a rich man boast in his heart. God oppose a boastful heart

— Mercy Pheona

“WHAT WE GIVE TO THE POOR IS WHAT WE TAKE WITH US WHEN WE DIE.”

— William Peter Blatty

“Un miros de sărac, un miros de violență, de necesitatea de a parveni.”

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

— Ha-Joon Chang

I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.

— Jack Layton

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

— Hank Johnson