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“O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods: and only mocks the great With empty pageantries!”
Elijah Fenton (1683–1730) said by 1730 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prostitution has little to do with morality, and everything to do with poverty.”
Lisa Mason (1953–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today’s HUD head Henry Cisneros, whom Kemp praised and endorsed in Senate confirmation hearings in 1993, has used this program to great effect in Baltimore and Dallas, threatening to wreck whole suburbs with an immigration of crime and poverty.”
Jeffrey Tucker (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.”
Sheikh Hasina (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chávez’s Marxist legacy continued under his successor, Nicolás Maduro, who watched Venezuela free fall into an economic abyss. The socialization of Venezuela resulted in a crisis where hospitals had no drugs or basic supplies, where the poverty rate went from 30 percent in 1999 to 87 percent in 2016, chronic food shortages erupted, and children and the sick began dying from malnutrition.”
L. K. Samuels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Democratization of commerce is based on everyone having the right to exercise their roles as micro consumers, micro producers, micro entrepreneurs, micro investors, and micro innovators. Access to information removes the first impediment to building this brave, new world. Information asymmetry has always been at the heart of poverty.”
C. K. Prahalad (1941–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have no doubt that the elimination of poverty and deprivation is possible by 2020.”
C. K. Prahalad (1941–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fundamental problem posed by modernization is whether human animals can adjust as readily to longevity, affluence, and peace as they have in the past to shortgevity, poverty, and war.”
Marion J. Levy Jr. (1918–2002) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marion J. Levy Jr., cited in: Frances Carol Locher, Ann Evory (1978), Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers. p. 371
“O poverty, chief of the heavenly brood.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) said by 1635 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need to address climate change, we need to limit the temperature rise globally to the maximum extent but we cannot do it at the expense of keeping people in poverty and stopping their economic development.”
Khalid A. Al-Falih (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is another plane of thought into which some have entered. It holds up a vision of a society redeemed by true democracy. It believes in a time when monopoly shall be no more, and labor and capital, no longer at war, shall cooperate to the wiping out of involuntary and undeserved poverty in an era of industrial equality and social peace.”
Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855–1925) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Basis of the Struggle", July 31, 1909, La Follette's Weekly Magazine. As quoted in Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909–2009 by Matthew Rothschild. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2…
“With their expulsion from the crafts and the devaluation of reproductive labor poverty became feminized, and to enforce men's "primary appropriation" of women's labor, a new patriarchal order was constructed, reducing women to a double dependence: on employers and on men.”
Silvia Federici (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered.”
Barbara Castle (1910–2002) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement (1959), quoted in Nicholas Timmins, The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State (1995), pp. 254-255
“What does it matter! [poverty], One of these days I shall have carriages and a golden crutch. My brush will win them for me.”
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Diaz, c. 1830-34; as quoted by Arthur Hoeber in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1915…
“We have, in our Slum Cities, manufactured a Poverty which, instead of bracing and disciplining our manhood into higher service, tends only to maim and stunt and discredit and degrade it.”
Henry Scott Holland (1847–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poverty ... allows them no room to breathe, to grow, to expand. It gives no time for spiritual interests. It chokes back the religious instincts. It offers no opportunities for the play of the higher energies. They are too tired to think, or to read, or to pray.”
Henry Scott Holland (1847–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They agonise in sordid tenements, with children stabled worse than sheep or kye. O, how can grace or peace or health abide such poverty?”
Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines for the Scottish Watch", st. 3, in Sea Buckthorn (1954)
“The man that mates wi’ Poverty An’ clasps her tae his banes, Will faither lean an’ lively thochts, A host o’ eident weans.”
Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, I’m ambitious that we eradicate child poverty. There should be no place in a wealthy society like ours for children to grow up without their being met.”
Jacinda Ardern (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My plan is to introduce the legislation – it’s already drafted – which sets out what our measures of poverty will be. That’s been an often-disputed issue. We will finally have some agreement that will be in law. From there, we’ll go ahead and set those targets. Certainly it will be a matter of priority, but the legislation comes first.”
Jacinda Ardern (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scum they might be; many would otherwise have been hanged or deported, but firm discipline and fair treatment would soon change that. The hard men who would never break, Adam would take on himself to train. They often proved to be the best sailors, especially those who had never known anything but poverty and oppression.”
Douglas Reeman (1924–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can’t downgrade hard into hardships because the poverty will follow you. You downgrade into manifestation”
Khanyi Mbau (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Black feminism also contains a strong emphasis on the class differences that exist between women, because the vast majority of the Black population in the U.S. has always been a part of the working class, and disproportionately living in poverty, due to the economic consequences of |racism.”
Sharon Smith (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a weak man, Cousin,” he replied. “It was my weakness that led to my poverty, and brought me to Mars, and prompted me to steal that egg.” He gave a rueful grin. “It would be inconsistent for me to display any strength of character now.”
David D. Levine (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a nasty little village, poverty-stricken, ugly, hostile, much like little towns in all times and climes.”
Keith Laumer (1925–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The common people (live in) poverty so great and miserable that the life of the people can be depicted or accurately described only as the home of stark want and the dwelling place of bitter woe… their houses are built of mud with thatched roofs. Furniture there is little or none, except some earthenware pots to hold water and for cooking…”
Francisco Pelsaert (1591–1630) said by 1630 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pelsaert, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
“Take sharing as your guide into the future. Release your brothers from the grip of poverty and pain. Open yourselves to the impulses of the soul and establish in your midst the Will of God.”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our prime task now is to look after the environment. This will become the responsibility of every individual, politician, guru, saint and scientist. Our energies will be spent in making it healthy again. When that happens there will be less suffering, disease and poverty.”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After two centuries of civil administration, with its agents, its treachery, its inefficiency, and at time its horrible corruption, where are the Indians? Such as survived the flood of white immigration are living in poverty and ignorance.”
Frederic Remington (1861–1909) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Indians as Irregular Cavalry,” Harper’s Weekly, (Dec. 27, 1890), as quoted in The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington, Peggy & Harold Samuels, Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company (1979) p. 59
“The northern Cheyennes, after they surrendered to General Miles, irrigated and raised crops at the mouth of the Tongue River for two years, and almost immediately sank into poverty and sloth when given Interior Department rations, for which they did not have to work in order to procure.”
Frederic Remington (1861–1909) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Indians as Irregular Cavalry,” Harper’s Weekly, (Dec. 27, 1890), as quoted in The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington, Peggy & Harold Samuels, Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, (1979) p. 62
“There is an emotional abandonment that comes with poverty and being Black,”
Viola Davis (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two decades after the destruction of the Anglo Boer War, the Afrikaners didn't blame the past for all their troubles. They baked and sold koeksisters, they started companies, they organized fundraisers to build schools and universities... Entitlement ideology increases poverty.”
Ernst Roets (born 1985) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Article by The Citizen Newspaper (Title: Stop being entitled and bake koeksisters, says Ernst Roets) Published on the 12th February 2019
“We may be a small party and a small country but we can stand tall if we stand together and if we stand up for our principles. Real independence means collectively lifting our people out of poverty leaving no-one behind, building a future based on hope not on fear.”
Leanne Wood (born 1971) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Plaid Cymru elect Leanne Wood as new leader, BBC News, 15 March 2012
“Cruelty walked the Warrens holding hands with poverty and rage.”
Brent Weeks (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty, it's someone who has a cash flow problem.”
Dominic Raab (born 1974) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During an election debate hosted by the BBC, cited in The Guardian (29 May 2017)
“It bears repeating: since the EITC lowers wages and the current minimum wage is still a poverty wage for many families, it is a missed opportunity for the federal government and the more than 40 cities and seven states phasing in $15 minimum wages to not include a EITC and vice versa. Like lightbulbs and lamps, the policies are complements.”
Teresa Ghilarducci (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don’t need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness.”
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become – the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God’s beloved Son.”
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With pensioner poverty on the rise and the Tories already having broken their pledge to protect pensioner benefits and free TV licences for over-75s, it is more important than ever that people are given the right information about their pension. The government must ensure that all pension data is accurate and secure.”
Jack Dromey (1948–2022) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said after it was revealed that up to 3% of the governments state pension growth projections were in error. Quoted by Business Fast. Your state pension: are there missing years in your contributions? (5 July 2019)
“I still believe in a Chicano literature that is hungry for change, that has the courage to name the sources of our discontent both from within our raza and without, that challenges us to envision a world where poverty, crack, and pesticide poisoning are not endemic to people with dark skin and Spanish surnames”
Cherríe Moraga (born 1952) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From The Last Generation, quoted in De Colores Means All of Us by Elizabeth Martinez (2017)
“…The root cause of poverty and crime is capitalism itself. We need a society based on cooperation, caring and creativity – not profits, war and social control. For troubled men and women, we need to give people a “chance to live,” as Clarence Darrow once said. To start, we need a government that works for us – not the 1%.”
Luis J. Rodriguez (born 1954) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On what he pinpoints on the reasons for poverty and other social issues in California in “Redefining Democracy in California: An Interview With Luis Rodriguez” in Truthout (2014 May 28)
“For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far greater level of hopelessness as they see so many of their loved ones cycling in and out of prison. Children who have incarcerated parents are far more likely themselves to be incarcerated…”
Michelle Alexander (born 1967) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the effect mass incarceration has on children in “Schools and the New Jim Crow: An Interview With Michelle Alexander” in Truthout (2013 Jun 4)
“I wanted to write a play about racism, about poverty, about the negative forces that haunt us and make us murderous—and the positive forces that do daily battle for us—like love, friendship, family—which lead to some kind of hope...”
Migdalia Cruz (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was a child, poverty was a common suffering for everybody around me. A common suffering is a richness in itself.”
Estela Portillo-Trambley (1936–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We know that Father Nimatullah lived a holy life. He was a man of prayer, totally 'enraptured by God'. He spent days and nights in meditation, prayer and adoration of the Eucharist. The Virgin Mary was his patron and Father Nimatullah prayed Her Rosary. He was also a very humble, sensitive and patient person who lived his monastic vows of 'obedience, chastity and poverty' to perfection.”
Saint Nimatullah Kassab (1808–1858) said by 1858 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We reap as we sow. In trying to control others, we find ourselves controlled. In failing to honor our neighbor's choice, we create a world of poverty and strife.”
Mary Ruwart (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And so anytime when we see millions of people without health care and silence too often by the church, when we see 62 million people without living wages and silence from too many of the churches, we see 140 million people living in poverty, and there not be an outcry from the church, then we actually enable greed by our apathy and absence from the public square.”
William Barber II (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why do we hear so much about crime rates and opioids and gun violence in America, but poverty kills more people than all of those things?”
William Barber II (born 1963) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Poverty 4th Leading Cause of Death in U.S. as Calls Grow for Third Reconstruction: Bishop Barber. June 28, 2023.
“It is now becoming recognised in all parts of the world that there can be no healthy Christian State, in any country, where poverty exists amongst the masses of the people.”
Timothy Quill (1901–1960) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Kerryman (1937)
“Growing up in the Pico/Union barrio of downtown Los Angeles in the 1970's was to be born into abject poverty and violence. And even that fed into telling stories and finding ways of surviving. I can see now that I was always a playwright, I just didn't know or have the language for it then.”
Luis Alfaro (born 1963) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his eventual realization of being an artist in “BWW Interview: Acclaimed Playwright Luis Alfaro of OEDIPUS EL REY at Magic Theatre Talks about His Path & the Role of the Artist in Creating Change” in Broadway World (…