poverty Quotes

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.