Poverty Quotes
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
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I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
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You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.
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Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.
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When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
