Top 1200 Poverty Today Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.

We measure poverty by what I believe is a very, very crude concept. We actually measure poverty by trying to get some kind of an estimate of the minimum expenditures on food that are required to maintain health, multiplying that number by three, and saying that's the level of poverty. And it's a very crude, inaccurate arrangement.

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America? What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts serving poor children to compensate for issues related to poverty. Since the enactment of NCLB, the focus on mitigating poverty has been replaced by a focus on accountability as measured by test scores.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

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

Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information, poverty-stricken households will never catch up to households above the poverty line - throwing the African-American community deeper into the stone ages.

A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

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.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I think people have to remember where we were in 2009. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month. We had an unemployment rate in double digits. We had poverty rates soaring. We had kids who were food insecure. Today in 2016, we have a lot less unemployment, a lot less poverty, and a lot fewer kids who are food insecure.

Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic issues. If you look closely at all these conflicts around the world, they come down to poverty and economics and resources. The more poverty, the worse the war.

Poverty should be one of the top concerns for any elected leader. It has a negative effect on almost everything we as society entrust our government to do, but it seems that those in the Republican Party find it is more politically viable to fight a war on the people in poverty than it is to fight a war to end poverty in this country.

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.

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.

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.