Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The… — Hugo Chavez
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. — Madonna Ciccone
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. — Woody Allen
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically… — Hillary Clinton
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. — Isabel Allende
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while… — William J. Clinton
If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and… — William J. Clinton
Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising. — Eric Alterman
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building… — Kofi Annan
The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are… — Stephen Hawking
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. — Mike Todd
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is… — Phyllis Diller
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And… — George F. Kennan
Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own… — Ed Koch
...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go… — Ed Koch
Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But… — Jeff Sessions
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people… — Aberjhani

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