Quotes about Poverty

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

If you give a poor man an acre of land around his house, he will be pleased and stay there for life. Build a wall around that acre, however, and all he will want is to escape.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .

Greed comes from the same lack mindset as poverty.

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.

No one should have to choose between taking lifesaving medicine and paying for food.

belonged to the respectable class of society, but must have been poor; for he depended for support on a trade which he learned in accordance with rabbinical custom; it was the trade of tent-making, very common in Cilicia, and not profitable except in large cities.