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Poverty Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.
- Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to…
- Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.
- As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases…
- The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition…
- If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the…
- If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people…
- There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
- The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn…
- When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice,…
- The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
- I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly…
- We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind…
- The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert…
- When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands…
- The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school…
- A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more…
More Poverty Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin