Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.

Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.

To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

To educate girls is to reduce poverty.

Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of the African American and Latino population does live in poverty as compared to the white population, when overall numbers are looked at, it is clear that people of all races, ethnicities, and colors, are represented amongst America's poor.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

To really tackle poverty, politicians, activists, academics will all have to think outside their boxes, will have to start developing much more integrated approaches to these problems. And a large part of this will involve working out ways to push for living wages. Partly this will involve re-empowering the union movement, which has been massively weakened in recent decades. Partly it will involve a willingness to restructure tax codes to penalize companies that don't provide basic benefits and decent wages to employees.

To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.