Poverty Quotes

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.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

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.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.