2,719 Quotes About Poverty

In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.

I will suggest that we do not only teach poor people how to fish but how to farm the fish—aquaculture!

Such were the cruel terms upon which their life was possible, that they might never have nor expect a single instant's respite from worry, a single instant in which they were not haunted by the thought of money.

When you are really rich, you do not mind coming across as poor or broke.

These latter sums, running up into three figures, he no longer regarded as debts. A debt was an obligation one intended to meet someday.

she had seen the poverty of the rich and the wealth of the poor, and the value of bringing the rich and poor together

The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.

A child born to the wealthy should not have more rights, freedoms, and opportunities than a child born in poverty.

One of the biggest lies is that the wealthy create jobs. So, if that's true, how did we survive before there was money?