Famous Quotations About Poverty

Here are some famous quotations about poverty and being poor. We have quotes made by George Bernard Shaw, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Muhammad Ali plus others.

Every stable government in history has depended on the resignation of the poor to being poor.

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

This Administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

War on nations change maps. War on poverty maps change.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

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