Poverty Quote by Henry Ford

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege…

— Henry Ford

...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human…

— Kofi Annan

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

— Jack Klugman

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.”

— JSB Morse

“Poverty would always exist when we allow injustices to speak.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

— Paul Wolfowitz

“The problem of poverty must force us to innovate, not claim "rights to impose our solutions.”

— C.K. Prahalad

“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in…

— Dean Karlan

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

— Antonia Fraser

“The typical poverty program creates dependency, robs people of dignity, stifles initiative, and can foster a “What have you done for me lately?” sense…

— Barry Asmus

We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis as absolute…

— Robert Neelly Bellah