Poverty Quotes

"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs" "Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity." "No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses." "If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake." "When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die." "Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket." "To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself" "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich" "Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache" "I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." "If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you." "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime" "Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters" "It is not a hyperbole to say that the poor are enslaved by their poverty and the middle classes that they have bought into a myth about themselves" "History will judge societies and governments and their institutions not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and powerful but how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless"