Poverty Quotes

• You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

  

  Mark Takano
  • World
  • Experience
  • Poverty

• 'I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.'

  

  Peter Akinola
  • Church
  • Suffering
  • Poverty

• In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Family
  • Community

• For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

  

  John W. Gardner
  • Poverty

• The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Power
  • Community

• It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That's how we leave no one behind.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Time
  • Real
  • Commitment

• The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Civilization
  • Blind
  • Cannibalism

• The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Passion
  • Poverty
  • Revenge

• The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Poverty

• America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • America
  • Financial

• We must acknowledge that the utter poverty of hundreds of millions of people is not a matter for compassion only, but a threat in the long term to the growth and vigor of the global economic system. We must see it as a part of our charge to help create economic opportunity so that the gap between the richest and poorest does not grow ever wider.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • Long
  • Help

• The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

  

  Dorothy Dix
  • Age
  • Poverty

• Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Poverty

• Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Poverty

• In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Nice
  • Body

• Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Poor
  • Thanks
  • Beggar

• There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Poverty

• Famine is a consequence of poverty.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Poverty

• Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Pain
  • Build
  • Histories

• Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

  

  John Wycliffe
  • God
  • Power
  • Age

• The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Poverty
  • Advantage
  • Parentage

• I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • America
  • Pain
  • Promise

• Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

  

  James Reston
  • Poverty

• We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Kill
  • Shame

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