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“We have the rich culture of the Nupe people, we have our beautiful dancers and when you see the way they make their cultural clothes, very beautiful to behold. We have a rich history.”
Amina Abubakar Bello (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a country we are blessed. We are rich in natural resources which include petroleum, minerals, energy resources, agricultural land, beautiful weather and rich soils. The political stability and the peace that is prevailing in the country right now create a conducive climate for us to exploit these natural resources.”
Irene Muloni (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Include iron-rich foods in your child’s diet, such as meat, poultry, fish, beans, and iron-fortified foods. Continue serving iron-fortified cereal until your child is eating a variety of iron-rich foods.”
Sabrina Kitaka (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We outnumber the rich and always will. This is still a democracy, more or less, and we have the ability to vote with our brains and not some kind of mixed up idealism that makes us go against our own interest. And we can organize, so that when the rich and privileged don’t keep their promises, we have a way to make them listen.”
Lewis Shiner (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothin' like them other motherfuckers I can make you rich (I can make you rich) I can make you this, baby, I can make you that I can take you there, but baby, you won't make it back.”
Lil Peep (1996–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We cannot construct rich s in an adequate, automated way without the triumvirate of hybrid architecture, rich prior knowledge, and sophisticated techniques for reasoning.”
Gary Marcus (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are rich in natural resources, we are rich in people resources. And yet we hear from analysts and economists we are the poorest in Asia.”
Miriam Defensor Santiago (1945–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were two very beautiful blond children, the children of rich people: all the children of rich people are blond and look alike, while the children of Calabrian farm laborers are dark-skinned and look different from each other.”
Paolo Villaggio (1932–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to be able in the end.., when I'm... summing up all my budgets at the end of my life.., to be able to tell myself that it ended up with those who really needed it, and not just making the rich industries even more rich.”
Anna Heringer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics”
George Ayittey (1945–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's a rich club. I've watched Copenhagen in South Africa, Champions League nights, the rich nights.”
Thapelo Maseko (born 2003) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.”
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault, That into practice they can ne'er be brought.”
Charles Churchill (satirist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.”
Hill Zaini (born 1987) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Borneo Bulletin, 26 September 2009
“Tories were linked to harshness; thought to be uncaring about unemployment, poverty, poor housing, disability and single parenthood; and considered indifferent to moral arguments over landmines and arms sales. We were thought to favour greed and the unqualified pursuit of the free market, with a 'devil take the hindmost' attitude.”
Michael Portillo (born 1953) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Centre for Policy Studies (9 October 1997), quoted in Jill Sherman, '‘Tolerance is a part of the Tory tradition’', The Times (10 October 1997), p. 11
“Maybe by doing this work and putting my name on the front line, like a science project, will also afford me the opportunity to embarked into a very special opportunity to show that growing up poor doesn't have to mean being unworthy or forgettable. This is a very important lesson for those who propagate such narrow minded universally accepted inaccuracies about poverty.”
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) first seen 1782 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to James Boswell, December 7, 1782, p. 494
“[I]t is always a genial laughter. Not at mere weakness, at misery or poverty; never. No man who can laugh, what we call laughing, will laugh at these things. It is some poor character only desiring to laugh, and have the credit of wit, that does so. Laughter means sympathy.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.”
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the International Conference on Financing for Development (March 2002)
“There is evidence of growing dissatisfaction among the guards. We have known for some time that the poor and ignored were the nonvoters, alienated from a political system they felt didn't care about them, and about which they could do little. Now alienation has spread upward into families above the poverty line.”
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The bloated military, sucking the marrow out of the nation, is unassailable. Poverty is a nightmare for half the population. Poor people of color are gunned down with impunity in the streets.”
Chris Hedges (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A key strategy towards restoring stability is developing targeted approaches to poverty reduction across different sectors coupled with the specific social provisions for the poor and the most vulnerable groups in society.”
Asenaca Caucau wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It should not be a surprise then that poverty continues to breed conflict. Of the 13 million deaths due to armed conflict in the last ten years, 9 million occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, where the poorest of the poor live.”
Mohamed ElBaradei (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem" originally in Esquire (July 1960)
“No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty—to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries.”
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There have been a good many funny things said and written about hardupishness, but the reality is not funny, for all that. It is not funny to have to haggle over pennies. It isn't funny to be thought mean and stingy. It isn't funny to be shabby and to be ashamed of your address. No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty — to the poor.”
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.”
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?”
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao (1902–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.”
Muhammad Yunus (born 1940) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eliminating Poverty Through Market-Based Social Entrepreneurship" in Global Urban Development Magazine (May 2005)
“[20th Century has been called] the century of extremes, [...] in which human vices reached unfathomable depths. [She notes that it has been] a century of great progress [and in some places of] unprecedented economic growth. [At the same time, however, poor urban areas face a bleak future of] overcrowding and a disease pattern linked to poverty and an unhealthy environment.”
Gro Harlem Brundtland (born 1939) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Awake! magazine 1999, 12/8, article: The Most Profound Changes.
“'Poverty's no disgrace, but 'tis a great inconvenience' was a common saying among the Lark Rise people. — (ch. 1, Poor People's Houses)”
Flora Thompson (1876–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Clothes make the poor invisible.... America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”
Michael Harrington (1928–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Church in India needs to take more seriously the option for the poor and take concrete steps to alleviate poverty and misery in India.”
Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kunnumpuram, K. (ed) (2007) World Peace: An Impossible Dream?, Mumbai: St Pauls
“I am old enough to remember the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, when the government fought a "war on poverty." In recent years that war has been transformed by representatives of both major parties into a war on the poor. More important yet, but less reported, is that in the years since Ronald Reagan was elected president, corporate America has waged war against this nation's workers.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, India has only two castes – those who are poor and those who want to eradicate poverty.”
Narendra Modi (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will not pursue trickle-down economics, but will implement bottom-up economics aimed at getting the poor out of poverty into prosperity.”
Peter Mutharika (born 1940) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After being sworn in to office as president (May 31 2014)
“The last 60 years have seen collapse of many democracies. For a poor country, it is more difficult to sustain a democracy. From poverty, we have come to being a developing nation. Not only did we survive, we have the distinction of becoming world’s largest democracy.”
Arun Jaitley (1952–2019) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the occasion of the Indian Parliament completing 60 years, as quoted in "Democracy is behind our growing global stature says PM", ABP Live (13 May 2012)
“Since my last tenure we have been trying to find the root causes of poverty and how we could reduce it. We wanted to ensure food security so we put all our force into producing more food and also the distribution system so that food should first reach to the poorest of the poor. Then we tried to create job opportunities for them in the rural areas.”
Sheikh Hasina (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.”
Robert A. Hall (1946–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here are poor who, far from discovering their true selves through the pressure of their poverty, find in it a cloud which for ever hides them from themselves.”
Henry Scott Holland (1847–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Before COVID-19, nearly 700 people died everyday because of poverty and inequality in this country. The frontlines of this pandemic will be the poor and dispossessed - those who do not have access to healthcare, housing, water, decent wages, stable work or - and those who are continuing to work in this crisis, meeting our health care and other needs.”
William Barber II (born 1963) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Members of the 116th Congress, Poverty Amidst Pandemic: A Moral Response to COVID-19 (March 19, 2020), co-written with Liz Theoharis, Poor People's Campaig…
Also quoted by: Liz Theoharis
“Charity is system-affirming. It does nothing about the root causes of poverty, criminalization, and racism. It just treats a few of the symptoms selectively. Social justice work is about making it so that no one is poor, homeless, targeted by police, deportable, or exploited.”
Dean Spade (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Social security should really be a prominent issue in this presidential campaign. Despite the fact that about one-sixth of Americans get a check from social security – and millions more, including poor children, are helped immensely by it – the nation’s largest anti-poverty program remains vastly misunderstood by most of the country.”
Mark Weisbrot (born 1954) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Politicians have lied about social security. The US must elect someone who'll fight for it The Guardian (2 February 2020)
“Catholics in Pakistan generally are treated as social outcasts and are not accepted as equals by the Muslim majority. They are poor and illiterate. Education is the key to liberate them from this cycle of poverty and slavery.”
Lawrence Saldanha (born 1936) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Archbishop emeritus of Lahore: rethinking the curriculum, focusing on equal rights (April 14, 2011)
“We are very proud of our priests. Of course we would need more of them. Most priests have more than one parish to care for but they are very dedicated and zealous. Our priests are poor and a life of poverty is a good means of witness.”
Polycarp Pengo (1944–2026) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We are very grateful to the Holy Father for offering his suffering and his prayers for the Church in Tanzania. His words are encouragement for our mission”. Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam speaks wi…
“Today, we take action to end menstrual inequalities such as period poverty. We must. The lives of millions of girls and women demand that we do. Poor”
Janet Mbugua (born 1984) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (2020)
“The words ‘poor’ or ‘poverty’ are often used to define identity, yet these communities are more accurately described by their strength and drive to overcome the exploitative politics of the Old World.”
Jeannette Kagame (born 1962) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: H.E. Mrs. Jeannette Kagame, First Lady of Rwanda, Calls for Urgent Action to Break the Poverty Cycle at International Year of Family Global Conference. rwandainqatar.gov.rw (September 19, 2026)
“We have to recognize that Jews are relatively well-off economically compared with most people of color in this country, as with the rural white poor; and that Jews endure about the same level of poverty as other ethnic groups who immigrated around the same time. Our job is to untangle class hostility from anti-Semitism, not to pretend the Jewish people still works in the sweatshop.”
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (1945–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The appalling poverty I experienced in my childhood and youth tempered me. In later years, I often recalled the plight of my childhood with a view to preventing myself from becoming corrupt and forgetting the hard life of the poor. That is why I can still vividly remember the ordeals I went through as a child.”
Peng Dehuai (1898–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source