Poverty Quotes

Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there’s nothing we can do.