Case Quote by Henry Louis Gates

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

— Sherrod Brown

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

— Fay Weldon

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

— Anonymous

No person should live in poverty after a life of hard work.

— Letitia James

The only way out of poverty is more freedom.

— Javier Milei

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

— Stuart Wilde

The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of…

— Nelson Mandela

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

— Muhammad Yunus

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…

— Daisaku Ikeda

No one who works for a living should live in poverty.

— Edward Kennedy

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

— P. J. O'Rourke