2,719 Quotes About Poverty
- Author Emily Dickinson
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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
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- Author John Dryden
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And plenty makes us poor.
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- Author Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
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- Author Euripides
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Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.
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- Author George Eliot
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It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
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- Author Marian Wright Edelman
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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
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- Author Alberto Fujimori
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Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
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- Author Benjamin Franklin
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We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
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- Author Charles Fillmore
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It is a sin to be poor.
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