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“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And we have to focus on what actually works”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“If I was white, I would be like John Wayne. I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play. Somebody who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, from poverty.”
Quote by -Tupac
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty
Quote by -Eartha Kitt
I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.
Quote by -Eartha Kitt
"Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid."
Quote by -Paul David Hewson
"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment."
Quote by -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it."
Quote by -Dorothy Day
"We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it."
Quote by -Dorothy Day
"There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful."
Quote by -Dorothy Day
"Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless."
Quote by -Dustin Hoffman
"In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name."
Quote by -George Muller
"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."
Quote by -Anais Nin
"There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty."
Quote by -Indira Gandhi
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
“If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
Quote by -Coco Chanel
“In fact, there are many unique satisfactions here. One is that Americans seem to outstrip every nation for hope. Perhaps because so many of us came in flight from something worse, or rose from poverty here, or absorbed the fact and fiction of the “land of opportunity,” or just because optimism itself is contagious—whatever the reason, hopefulness is what I miss the most when I’m not here. It’s the thing that makes me glad to come home. After all, hope is a form of planning.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them
Quote by -Mother Teresa
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish
Quote by -Mother Teresa
We need to realize that poverty doesn’t only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else
Quote by -Mother Teresa
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism
Quote by -Mother Teresa
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy
Quote by -Mother Teresa
We need to realize that poverty doesn’t only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else
Quote by -Mother Teresa
Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
Quote by -Mahatama Gandhi
When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
Quote by -Lyndon B. Johnson
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Quote by -Lyndon B. Johnson
The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
Quote by -Vivienne Westwood