Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery… — Dambisa Moyo
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty — Jasmine Guy
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty — Eartha Kitt
Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty — Morgan Freeman
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those… — Van Jones
The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law.… — Howard Zinn
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her… — Coretta Scott King
If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s promises of a… — Bryant Gumbel
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening — Daphne Zuniga
The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation... to enable governments to engage in a mad race in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and… — Willie Nelson
Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to… — Willie Nelson
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God.… — Christopher Hitchens
Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so… — Tupac Shakur
Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty was at the… — Rick Santorum
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to… — Carl Sagan
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is… — Arthur Ashe
Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue. — Robin Thicke
If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with… — Philip Kapleau
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it… — Marshall Sahlins
Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty — Unknown Author
It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect… — Wess Stafford
Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right. — John Key
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies… — Angela Davis
If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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