- Relationship
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty Quotes
On hardship, pretense, and the thin line between struggle and ruin.
These quotes describe poverty as something felt rather than just discussed—its nearness to wealth in some places, the pretense people keep up to hide it, and the social programs built to hold it back. See our poverty slogans for another angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
- Growth
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
- Liberty
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.
- Challenge
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a great challenge in improving educational achievement. It's a long-term issue, not a short-term one. It includes everything from getting more parents involved to addressing issues of poverty and improving what happens in the classroom.
- I Am
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.
- Hero
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.
- Growth
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.
- Poor
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
- Discrimination
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
- Focus
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
- Change
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.
- Live
- |
- Nov 07, 2020