Quotes: Poverty

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Oh, I realize it’s a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I’ve worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as “Soho” poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

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.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.