The Best Quotes About Poverty And The Poor
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1Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi- 2
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner - 5
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James Baldwin - 7
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller - 8
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
Finley Peter Dunne - 9
When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'Rourke - 11
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
Michel de Montaigne - 12
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
Juvenal - 14
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
Gloria Steinem - 15
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa - 16
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre - 17
If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
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The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
Phaedrus - 21
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
Jean Kerr - 22
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
William Shakespeare - 23
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - 24
Poverty consist in feeling poor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - 25
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Josh Billings - 26
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde - 27
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - 28
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Theodore Parker - 29
Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
Josh Billings - 30
I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. -- On his childhood
Dwight D. Eisenhower - 31
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy - 32
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
Josh Billings - 33
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
Victor Hugo - 34
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
Samuel Johnson - 35
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson - 36Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.
Charles Dickens - 38
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa - 39
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome - 40
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith - 41
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
Henry David Thoreau - 42
He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
- 44
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Madonna - 45
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
- 46
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - 47
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.
Herbert Hoover - 48
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
Kin Hubbard - 49
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Seneca the Younger - 50
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
John Berger - 51
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
Seneca the Younger - 52
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
Albert Camus - 53
True poverty does not come from God.
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Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.
- 55Napoleon Bonaparte
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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
George Farquhar 
57The poor need a friend , to help bring poverty to an end
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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert Hoover - 59
I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx - 60
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
George Bernard Shaw
