No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty.
Poverty Quotes
Juvenal has the most entries, with Solomon, Shakespeare, Ali and the Nigerian politician Peter Obi after him. The older sourced material is blunt. Shaw’s Major Barbara (1905) calls poverty the greatest of evils and the worst of crimes, and Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village (1770) has a line addressed to poetry: “that found’st me poor at first, and keep’st me so.” Mark Twain gets in a joke in 1869, saying that a man is fast rising from affluence to poverty.
Three entries are flagged. “Poverty is the worst kind of violence” is credited to Gandhi as disputed. A passage on love having hands to help others is credited to Augustine, also disputed. “Widespread poverty and concentrated wealth cannot long endure side by side in a democracy” is credited to Thomas Jefferson and flagged misattributed.
Most quoted on poverty:
A society is not defined as developed by the wealth it has but by the poverty it doesn’t have.
You cannot talk about poverty and not talk about empowering women.
Will this generation, at last, be the one to end extreme poverty?
Housing is the key to solve different issues, including poverty and youth development.
Without economic transformation, without alleviating poverty, you’ll still be struggling.
A pig can actually have qualities to get someone out of poverty if properly looked after.
"Seeing you continue to languish in abject poverty is becoming increasingly unbearable for me."