Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. — Daisaku Ikeda
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse -… — Washington Irving
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder,… — Jerome K. Jerome
So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent. — Jesse Jackson
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct… — Jesse Jackson
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life. — Naveen Jain
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of… — Naveen Jain
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy,… — Naveen Jain
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of… — Thomas Jefferson
When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and… — Penn Jillette
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not… — Xi Jinping
Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor. — Pope John XXIII
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes… — Samuel Johnson
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. — Samuel Johnson
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from… — Samuel Johnson
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your… — Jay-Z
One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't… — Jay-Z
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly… — Daniel Kahneman
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have… — Abdul Kalam
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty… — Denis Kearney
Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality… — Jack Kemp
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. — John F. Kennedy

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