Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

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.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘