Here is the best poverty quotes collection
1. It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. — William E. Vaughn
2. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. ― Frank McCourt
3. There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ― Mahatma Gandhi
4. Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. — Kofi Annan
5. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. — Aristotle
6. An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. ― Albert Einstein
7. In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. — Confucius
8. My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice. — Bryan Stevenson
9. History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. — Jeffrey D. Sachs
10. I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. — Bill Gates
11. We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without. ― Immanuel Kant
12. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. — John F. Kennedy
13. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
14. You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money. — P.J. O’Rourke
15. It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
16. There is enough in the world for everyone’s needs, but not for everyone’s greed. — Frank Buchman
17. Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. ― Rick Bragg
18. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste.
But in practice such a society could not long remain stable.
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this.
They would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. ― George Orwell
19. A hungry stomach, an empty pocket and a broken heart teach you the most valuable lesson in life. ― Cherry Nguyen
20. Don’t ignore the effort of a person who tries to keep in touch. It’s not all the time someone cares. ― Cherry Nguyen
21. I don’t care what other people think of me. I enjoy my life with my own rules. ― Cherry Nguyen
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