Poverty Quotes
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For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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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.
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I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.
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Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In fact, it is our safety net that allows full participation in the economy. More Americans purchasing goods means more Americans making them, which means more American jobs.
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Famine is a consequence of poverty.
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I can't eradicate poverty, but at least for the people around me, I can help make sure no child is denied a dream.
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I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.
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If we didn’t have finance, though? Forget the 1970s—try the 1270s. Economic progress emerges from the intelligent combination of capital and innovation. Remove capital from the equation—and the financial markets that accumulate and direct that capital into the hands of innovators—and the result is poverty and stagnation.
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
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The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
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Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty
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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.
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We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.
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These goals - clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty - these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World.
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Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.
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It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
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It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.
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There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?
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Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
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The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.
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Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.
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That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
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'Poverty' Pitt exclaimed 'is no disgrace but it is damned annoying.' In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.
