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Poverty  Quotes
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what...

—W.E.B. Du

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HumanityIgnoranceKnowledge
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Poverty is the highest of riches and a thousand times superior to a king ‘ s wealth.

—Sathya Baba

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It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with...

—Sol Luckman

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Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that’s where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

—Paul Farmer

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CapitalismMedicinePoverty
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Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with unhealthy environmental factors, you will think poorly, speak poorly, act and behave poorly.

—Uzoma Nnadi

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Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn’t he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

—William Steig

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HappinessMicePoverty
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When the poverty comes in the room automatically love go out from room windows.

—AbdulNasir

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Yazdıklarımı biri okuyacak olursa, belki de: “Söylediklerinin hepsi yalan,” diyecek. Ama bu sefalet öylesine gerçek ki…

—Carolina Maria

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Poverty doesn’t make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate.

—Anne Mateer

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ParentsPovertyWealth
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I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how...

—Charles Dickens

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HumiltyPovertyUnity
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I still would have had 800-900 students, 90 percent poverty and the same struggles, the same challenges, the same everything. Just less.

—Doretha Edgecomb

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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

—Franklin D.

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If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

—Eugene V.

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Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there...

—Henning Mankell

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Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

—George Orwell

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Down-And-Out-In-Paris-And-LondonGeorge-OrwellMoney
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You are put in school to be trained to become exactly what they want you to be: not them, anything but them. They live on a golden island and have the key to the only...

—Craig Stone

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You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

—Frank McCourt

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Thus God’s work and His eyes are in the depths, but man’s only in the height.

—Martin Luther

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To fight the poverty, we must feel the poverty.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

—Mother Teresa

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When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman’s second priority is the household. She wants to buy utensils, build a stronger roof, or find...

—Muhammad Yunus

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Certainly, the wealth of the rich is a consequence of the poverty of the poor. (Lori Altmann, p. 85)

—Mev Puleo

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An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squatter camp.Matsime Simon Mohapi

—Matsime Simon

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A-State-Of-Absolute-HumiliationHomelessnessJoblessness
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Fakirlik, beşeriyetin büyük bir başarısızlık olduğu gerçeğinin matematiksel bir ispatıdır!

—Mehmet Murat

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If we are not being maligned, scandalizing those who still sleep in the church, then we are missing the incarnational call to love the world’s most vulnerable, the world’s exiled, the world’s most wounded. Our...

—Sarah Lance

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If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.

—Russell Moore

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Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

—Stuart Wilde

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For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in their lives. She also knew she delivered the sandwiches for her own sanity. Something would crumble inside of her...

—Sherman Alexie

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You’re broke, eh?”I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

—Raymond Chandler

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My honey child, them housing projects Cannot contain her multitudes A sunbeam, hard upon her Just a fly strugglin’ through her braid loops Watch me prove to ‘em I’m more than nothin’ But a ragamuffin...

—Valentine Xavier

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…while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end...

—Wess Stafford

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But then it is easy, too easy, to sermonize about the dangers of paternalism and the need to take responsibility for our own lives, from the comfort of our couch in our safe and sanitary...

—Abhijit V. Banerjee

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You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

—Al-Waleed bin Talai

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HearPovertyRich
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The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.

—Aravind Adiga

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InnovationLower-ClassPoverty
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

—Aristotle

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CrimePovertyRevolution
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The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

—Eduardo Galeano

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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

—Charlotte Brontë

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DegradationPoverty
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For me, TV and broke go together. Not as in, The TV is broken, but more of noticing that most people who watch too much TV are broke.

—Jarod Kintz

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BrokePoorPoverty
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And St. Francis added: “My dear and beloved Brother, the treasure of blessed poverty is so very precious and divine that we are not worthy to possess it in our vile bodies. For poverty is...

—Francis of

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P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty

—Ivan Illich

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Sometimes I feel I’m just doing a poor impression of a person. Maybe I feel this way because I have no money.

—Jarod Kintz

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We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.

—Jane Hersey

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AnxietyDepressionDomestic-Violence
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Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a union meeting. I have some things to say today that God would not want to hear in His own house. Boys, I...

—Jerry Ash

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CapitalismChild-LaborDemocracy
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Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was...

—M.H. Hyndman

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AdversityAtheistChristian
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Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

—Muhammad Ali

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ChangePovertyWar
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The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.

—Katherine Boo

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Animal-WelfareJusticePoverty
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Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children are not dressed warmly enough for winter. Real poverty is when the housing...

—Maxine Hancock

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ContentmentPovertyProsperity
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Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never left such roads, were never tempted to peruse those easy successes which, for...

—Laurent

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There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply...

—Randy Cohen

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