Afford Quote by Ibrahim Babangida

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

— Marc Forne Molne

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our…

— Ann Radcliffe

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,…

— Wes Moore

Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable,…

— Saint John Chrysostom

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

— Fay Weldon

Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America,…

— Harry Belafonte

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

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

— Ela Bhatt

...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