Line Quote by Charles Murray

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white;…

— Kathleen Blanco

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

— Seneca the Younger

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves…

— Muhammad Yunus

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have…

— Faye Wattleton

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

— Jose Mujica

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the…

— Don Cheadle

“Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to…

— Hannah Kent

“A variation on this strategy was implicit in a new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early 1960s: the…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

— Mother Teresa

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

— Kenny Rogers

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

— Lionel Trilling

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

— Margaret Drabble