Quotes about Poverty

There is nothing remotely dignified about sorting through rotting trash to find something to feed your child, or asking someone for money because you have none (anyone who has contrived to give people money before they had to ask will never forget the look of gratitude in their eyes).

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

Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.