2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Proper prospecting prevents poverty.

Poverty is a great equalizer

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.