Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. – Benjamin Franklin
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. – Norman Vincent Peale
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. – Oscar Wilde
Pity the sorrows of a poor man, whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door.
Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts. – Sadhguru
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. – Helder Camara
Poverty is the worst form of violence. – Mahatma Gandhi
Poor is the man who is not content with what he has. – Rita Gonzalez
Poverty is not a circumstance, it’s an attitude. – Rita Gonzalez
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. – Nelson Mandela
Some people are poor not because they have nothing, but because they always want more.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. – Martin Luther King Jr.
… I’m much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won’t forgive me for it. – Princess Diana
Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don’t even know there is a ladder. – Robert H. Schuller
If poverty ain’t no crime then stealing sure ain’t one.
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. – Jeffrey D. Sachs
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. – George Orwell
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. – Kahlil Gibran
It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it. – Idowu Koyenikan
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