Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to… — Muhammad Yunus
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. — Paramahansa Yogananda
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I write to escape ... to escape poverty. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can… — Leila Janah
Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor. — Peter Kropotkin
Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For… — John Cassian
Let no man's place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man's low condition or poverty abase him. For the chief points… — Ignatius of Antioch
I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me.… — Natalie Merchant
I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget… — Tahir Shah
So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not… — Muhammad Yunus
It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we… — Pope Francis
Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life. Theoretical poverty is… — Pope Francis
...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of insecurity, with dire… — Pope Francis
We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted! In… — Pope Francis
...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is… — Pope Francis
In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your small world, but… — Pope Francis
There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of… — Pope Francis
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins. — Chanakya
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of… — Polly Toynbee
Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty. — Ann Veneman
In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by… — George Muller

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