poverty Quotes

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.