Poverty Quotes - Page 10

• The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

  James Wolfensohn

  Issues, Poor, Humans

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• MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mother, Suffering, Empowerment

  "Mommie Dearest" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.

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• Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Equality, And Love, Generations

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• The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Feet, Keys, Needs

  Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime”, p.388, Penguin UK

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• Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Thinking, People, Lazy

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• It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

  George Eliot

  World, Helping, Misery

  "Silas Marner".

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, Truth Is

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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• In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Responsibility, Men, Important

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.100

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• Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

  William Cobbett

  Giving, Riches, Lord

  William Cobbett (2011). “A Year's Residence in the United States of America: Treating of the Face of the Country, the Climate, the Soil... of the Expenses of Housekeeping... of the Manners and Customs of the People; And, of the Institutions of the Country...”, p.63, Cambridge University Press

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• As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Independent, Eight

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.19, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• To have nothing is not poverty.
  [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]

  Martial

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• Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Wise, Curse

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• Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

  Joseph Addison

  Generous Spirit, Despair, Cows

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• There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Secure

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1983). “The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.615, Harvard University Press

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• Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

  Lucian

  Men, Suffering, May

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• The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  World, May, Vain

  Oliver Goldsmith (1823). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.271

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• The greatest man in history was the poorest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, History, Historical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2442, Delphi Classics

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• Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

  Philip James Bailey

  Thinking, Self, Space

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.96

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• Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

  Thomas Gray

  Soul, Noble, Chill

  Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1814). “The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.132

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• Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Rags, Arms

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.189

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Woe, Firsts, Bliss

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 413 (on poetry)

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• Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Children, Suffering

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1846). “Urania: a Rhymed Lesson”, p.15

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• Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

  Thomas Malthus

  May, Individual, Cases

  "An Essay on the Principle of Population (Two Volumes in One)".

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• This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, War, Military

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Real, Top Down, Government

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