Top Poverty Quotes

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, po...

But apparently you don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the cruel irony that prosperity is shrinking the...

Poverty Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

(n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.

If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor

Poverty should first be addressed in the mind because even if you give millions to a poor person, until there's a change of mindset, they will still remain the same.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in ar...

Mostly they all were products of single parents, and in the most tragic category - black boys, with no particular criminal inclinations but whose very lack of direction put them in the crosshairs of t...

Waking up every cold morning is always a problem especially now it's raining daily but I thank God for Proverbs 24:33 which says "...A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to...

This time is very important in your life because God wants to lift this generation from failures, poverty, and unbelief

Well, gentlemen, I have listened to all your Solutions, and I now inform you that I, and I alone, except perhaps for Walt Trowbridge and the ghost of Pareto, have the perfect, the inevitable, the only...

Poverty is a culture cultivated by a poor mindset which can not evolve or accept possibilities of rising higher .

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it,...

A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

It is amazing that the refugees stay sane. First the bombs, perhaps the battle around them, their casualties, their naked helplessness; then the flight, leaving behind everything they have worked for...

The Poverty Tour provided the opportunity to meet many people who had been living paycheck to paycheck even before the economic downturn. To so quickly slide from the great middle into the underworld...

Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in His Service, and so doing we shall please Him.

We won't let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We'll kill poverty through education.