Quotes about Poverty

In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.

Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.

I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing they have is money.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

People are not being paid enough, and we have not increased the minimum wage -- and we should be incentivizing the people who go to work. We should make working full-time something that will pay a living wage.

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.