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