Quotessence
Home / Topics / Poverty Quotes

Poverty Quotes

Browse 6296 quotes about Poverty.

Related topics

PeoplePoorWorldIfsMenWealthThinkingRichChildrenCountryWarWayNeedsHumansProblemWantHungerKnowsEconomicGivingMeanShouldHelpingSufferingEnding PovertyRichesDiseaseSocialTodayWellsMayEndsMillionsDoeFightingBelieveKindStatesYearsMadeFirstsMindCausesHas BeensPoliticalCrimeMiseryOpportunityLongAmericaCommunityExtremesGovernmentPersonsLittlesRealNationsIssuesProsperityFactsViolenceDevelopmentIgnoranceTwoClassResourcesExtreme PovertyConditionsHeartInequalitySoulCareJusticeWorld PovertyEconomyAidsMoneyImportantSchoolBornSeemsEnoughIndiaInjusticeLooksPainEvilHardInspirationalSelfStruggleTryingFeelsHandsIncomeIndividualJobsSpiritAbleCharitymore

Poverty Quotes

“Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.”

PeopleOrderOpportunityGrowthPovertyDignityIndependenceStrategyStructureIncomeWelfare
Book:The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Create image

“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.”

FirstsMayLittlesPoliticalSocialPrinciplesPovertyAcceptanceOffersIdealsDignityStonesUniversalMiseryCharityAppreciationPracticalsMinistersDistinctionReliefPeculiarUnfortunateSensibilityProsperousGrindAffluenceWretchednessInfamy
Book:The Encantadas and Other Stories
Create image

“Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!”

MenPoliticalHeavenPeaceInterestLibertyPovertyDangerIgnoranceHonorConscienceDignitySightSlaveryExtremesNobleMapsAlmightyOffensiveDependenceGoodwillBreachExtreme PovertyDerogatorySacrilegiousBreach Of Trust
Author:John Adams
Create image

“Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.”

HumansDoneRealityValuesCultureNationsWealthPrinciplesPovertyVirtueEconomicDignityDistancePursuitDefinedRecognitionRevolutionaryJustificationTolerateCommerceEntitledEmbeddedHuman DignityEconomic SystemsIndivisibleWealth And Poverty
Author:William Greider
Create image

“We offer a better way for dealing with persistent poverty in this country. A way that shows poor Americans the world beyond liberal ware housing and check-writing into the life everyone can find with opportunity and independence. The happiness of using your gifts and the dignity of having a job. And you know what? None of this will happen under Hillary Clinton. Only with Donald Trump and Mike Pence do we have a chance at a better way.”

KnowsWorldWayWritingCountryShowsHappensJobsOpportunityChancePoorPovertyTrumpOffersDignityIndependenceClintonChecksPersistentHousingMikeBetter Ways
Author:Paul Ryan
Create image

“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.”

PeopleHumansEasyPoorViewsPovertyMediaObjectsConflictDignityPityAgencyLackingPoor PeopleBadassHuman DignityPersonal DignityAmerican Media
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Create image

“It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.”

PeopleHumansForceNationsViewsPovertyViolenceDignityRelationInternationalExtremesTerrorismHumiliationInternational RelationsHuman RelationsHumiliatedLashesUnderestimated
Author:Thomas Friedman
Create image