Poverty Quotes

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

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.

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

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.