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.

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.

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.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Dom Helder Camara, a twentieth-century bishop in Brazil, said, "When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a Communist.