Poverty Quotes · Page 106

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

— Evita Peron

“Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

— Emmanuel Jal

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

— George Gilder

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

— Hugh Evans

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

— Ban Ki-moon

“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

— Martha Stewart

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a…

— Mother Teresa

O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort, Relieves the load of poverty, sustains The…

— Richard Glover

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club…

— Lou Reed

“I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean … and they’d be mean even if they were rich.”

— Fannie Flagg

Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons,…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

The care work force, the people who care for the elderly and disabled in the country and the people who principally provide…

— Brian Deese

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us…

— Ann Radcliffe

Freddie Gray's life was poverty and violence. Trauma and hopelessness. His death was an exclamation point on an unspoken story.

— Wes Moore

For most Americans, their primary aspiration is to achieve a better life... To earn a livable wage in a good job. To…

— Marco Rubio

“Most officially “poor” Americans today have things that middle-class Americans of an earlier time could only dream about—including color TV, videocassette recorders,…

— Thomas Sowell

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often,…

— Lupita Nyong'o

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal.…

— Jay-Z

“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the…

— Slavoj Zizek

We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send…

— Geneva Overholser

We refuse to share resources; we govern irresponsibly. If we are confident, if we have some of our cultural values, then we…

— Wangari Maathai

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Matthew Desmond

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

— Alexis De Veaux

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

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

— Victor Hugo

“You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.”

— Will Cuppy

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

— Kellie Elmore

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

— Sunday Adelaja

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell…

— Herman Gorter