Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members. — Mahatma Gandhi
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. — Jimmy Carter
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity. — Seneca the Younger
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds… — Eli Broad
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed… — Bob Brown
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives… — Deepak Chopra
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources… — Milton Friedman
As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to… — Julia Gillard
Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family,… — Takafumi Horie
It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor. — Ray Kroc
I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does… — Bill O'Reilly
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country. — Azim Premji
Broke is normal. Why be normal? — Dave Ramsey
After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I… — Dave Ramsey
I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and… — Howard Schultz
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. — Stuart Wilde
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were… — Oprah Winfrey
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe… — Muhammad Yunus
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. — Muhammad Yunus
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will… — Muhammad Yunus
I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion… — Muhammad Yunus
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. — Samuel Johnson
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all — Evita Peron

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