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Poverty and the poor

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

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Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Shaw, George Bernard

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Mccarthy, Mary

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Steinem, Gloria

I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

Wilde, Oscar

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

George, David Lloyd

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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John

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When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Feiffer, Jules

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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Pitt, William

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

Marquand, John

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Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Pitt, William

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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Harrington, Michael

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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.

Bible

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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Gardner, John W.

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

Harrington, Bob

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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Smith, Sydney

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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Todd, Mike

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Farquhar, George

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At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.

Wall, Derek

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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Baldwin, James

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Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

Hegel, Georg

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore