In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [. . . ]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.
The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to highlight the need for action on poverty in Africa, and for which so many artists and others are donating their valuable time for nothing [on people selling Live8 concert tickets on eBay]
Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian communities. The Community and College Social Innovation Fund will connect the innovative talent of researchers and students at colleges and polytechnics to meet the research needs of local community organizations to build stronger, safer, healthier communities.
For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.
Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.
what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.