Poverty Quotes

"I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town" "Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose." "There is no greater spellbinder of the mind than the chime of silver coins upon a begging plate." "The love of money is not the root of all evil. The lack of money is the root of all evil." "I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." "Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed" "Please, sir, I want some more" "Poverty is the worst form of violence" "No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing." "Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe" "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics" "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty." "Lack of money is the root of all evil." "The worst discrimination which the poor suffer is the lack of spiritual care. The great majority of the poor have a special openness to the faith; they need God and we must not fail to offer them his friendship, his blessing, his word, the celebration of the sacraments, and a journey of growth and maturity in the faith." "Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry." "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher" "The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor" "If you're in trouble or hurt or need go to the poor people They're the only ones that'll help the only ones" "The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer" "By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich"