Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

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.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

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

The proper study of mankind is woman.

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

All movements go too far.

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

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

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

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

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

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.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.

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

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

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

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Society is at odds with itself.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

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

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

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.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Racism is real in this country.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

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

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

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.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

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

Let’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

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

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.