Poverty Quotes

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

Benjamin Carson
- Poverty
- Hated
- Grown-Up

The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of weapons of war throughout the world, and because here at home, we have 50 million of our citizens living in poverty, one in four children surviving on Food Stamps, a collapsing education system, poor health care, and many other disasters, none of which can be addressed as long as the country keeps pouring trillions of dollars into war and militarism. This madness and criminality must end!

Dave Lindorff
- Country
- Children
- Madness
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
The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

Dolly Parton
- Poverty
- Shame
- Actual
You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure.

Joseph Prince
- Desire
- Victory
- Wealth
Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty...

Morgan Freeman
- Poverty
- Literacy
Poverty is the greatest violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
- Violence
- Poverty