“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are”
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Nelson Mandela
1 quote“If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.”
Oscar Wilde
1 quote“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”
Ronald Reagan
1 quote“We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won”
William Cowper
1 quote“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
André Gide
1 quote“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.”
Woodrow Wilson
1 quote“No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.”
Ernest Hemingway
1 quote“The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.”
Ezra Pound
1 quote“And round about there is a rabbleOf the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.They shall inherit the earth...”
Graham Greene
1 quote“Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad tim...”
Balzac
1 quote“Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.”
Mahatma Gandhi
1 quote“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
Mother Teresa
1 quote“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”