Change Quote by Jean Sasson

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions

— Motsoko Pheko

Poverty is the parent of revolution

— Aristotle

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

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

— Washington Irving

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all…

— John F. Kennedy

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

— Plato

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

— Aristotle