Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty… — Pope Benedict XVI
If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this… — Barack Obama
I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And… — James Lee Burke
Poverty is the mother of all revolutions — Motsoko Pheko
People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to… — Mao Zedong
It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty. — Sherrod Brown
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become… — Eduardo Galeano
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just… — Roger Daltrey
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty? — Sarah Bernhardt
It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty. — Jessica Jackley
To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit. — William Barrett
Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not… — Henry Cisneros
Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead,… — David K. Shipler
I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the… — Anne M. Mulcahy
Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth. — William J. Clinton
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and… — W. E. B. Du Bois
By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and… — Janet Poppendieck
The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of poor people are… — Walter E. Williams
Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right… — John F. Kerry
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism… — David Horowitz
We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise — Jack Kemp
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to — Phillips Brooks
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked… — Dan Simmons
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its… — Maria Montessori

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