Poverty Quotes

• We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

  

  Ahmed Sekou Toure
  • Liberty
  • Slavery
  • Riches

• If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank is to fight poverty with passion.' I had it put up there because I wanted something that unites us as an institution.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • Up
  • World
  • Passion

• When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Poverty

• We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Worry
  • Poverty

• Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Poverty
  • Degradation
  • Synonymous

• Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Done

• It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.

  

  James Roosevelt
  • Poverty

• Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Poverty

• Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Experience
  • Hurt
  • Childbirth

• Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Marriage

• The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.

  

  Ofir Drori
  • Powerful
  • Poverty
  • Littles

• Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Character
  • Energy
  • Fall

• The U.N. has been focusing on the global goals in terms of trying to fight and eradicate poverty, and I feel like education is at the root of it all.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Trying
  • Education
  • Goals

• Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

  

  Anna Lindh
  • America
  • Financial
  • Latin

• Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Poverty

• We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Character

• We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Job
  • Poverty
  • Priority

• We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Society
  • Poverty

• You have said that your first priority is the eradication of extreme poverty.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Poverty
  • Priority

• There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Society
  • Vision
  • Poverty

• A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • War
  • Education
  • Quality

• The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs
  • Poverty

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