Quotes about Poverty

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

and yet neither the bishops nor canons care how the poor people live or die, for whom nevertheless Christ has died, and who are not permitted to hear Him speak with them as the true Shepherd with His sheep.

A man is called 'spiritually poor,' not because he has no money or anything of his own, but because he does not covet it or set his comfort and trust upon it as though it were his kingdom of heaven.