Quotes about Poverty
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.
— Oscar Romero
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
— George Bernard Shaw
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
— William Barclay
No matter how poor one is, one can still give others riches
— Anne Frank
Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world?
— Anne Frank
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man. and the limitless kindness of God. WILLIAM BARCLAY
— Sheila Walsh
We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]
— John F. Kennedy
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
— Audrey Hepburn
Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
— Charles Dickens