You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Showing posts with label Poverty Quotes. Show all posts
Whoever shuts his ears at the ...
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.
Who ever mocks the poor insult...
Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.
When I gave food to the poor, ...
When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.
We have grown literally afraid...
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
We didn't starve, but we didn'...
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.
This is one of the bitter curs...
This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.
There were times my pants were...
There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
There is no scandal like rags,...
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
There are people in the world ...
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
The rich would have to eat mon...
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
The prevalent fear of poverty ...
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
The poverty of our century is ...
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.
The poverty of our century is ...
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.
The poor on the borderline of ...
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
The poor on the borderline of ...
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
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