Poverty Quotes

• The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Kind
  • Helping
  • Slavery

• Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Poverty

• Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

  

  Paul Farmer
  • Poverty
  • Health care
  • Market

• So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

  

  Helen Keller
  • Different
  • Long
  • Miracle

• Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

  

  Kathryn Hulme
  • Difficult
  • Grace
  • Praying

• I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.

  

  Werner Bischof
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Lives

• Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Good
  • Bad
  • House

• I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Violence
  • Gender
  • Feminism

• The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel and megachurches tend to be rather soft on political issues. T.D. Jakes doesn't take a major stand on political issues. Creflo Dollar certainly doesn't.

  

  Anthony B Pinn
  • History
  • Problem
  • Poverty

• Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Poverty
  • Indifference
  • Powder keg

• Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Poverty
  • Hated
  • Grown-Up

• There is a poverty that makes us all cruel.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Poverty
  • Cruel

• Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Democracy
  • Rule
  • Behavior

• The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

  

  Bill Gates
  • World
  • Belief
  • Disease

• We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Poverty
  • Means
  • Circle

• Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Teach
  • Poor
  • Lessons

• What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Action
  • Forget
  • Victims

• I don't think losing things - in my case, the use of my legs - really damages or hurts you. What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation. A lot of the wars going on right now in the Middle East aren't about poverty and exploitation. They're about humiliation. For a long time, the British and French have been humiliating the people of the Middle East, and encouraging people like Israel to do the same. Israel started out as a socialist state, but we always encouraged them to become rather racist and look down on the local inhabitants, which they now do. It's sad that's happened.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Energy
  • Technology
  • Resources

• I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Poverty
  • Southern
  • Mailing

• We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Song
  • Care
  • Injustice

• Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Business
  • Poverty
  • Fights

• If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Wife
  • Married
  • Consequences

• It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Poverty

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