Poverty Quotes - Page 34

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?

Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

Better poverty without care, than riches with.

And makes me poor indeed.

Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

Oh, poverty parts good company.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.