Poverty Quotes - Page 5

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

We are strengthening by different experiences in life;
Sad times, happy moments.
Poverty, riches.
Failure, success.
Troubles, good times.
Losing, winning.

Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

Books appear to be frail and disposable, but they are sacred. You can burn the paper, but the stories live on. In the same way, a poor man or woman is not a burden on society, they are those who survive despite the odds - and when they don’t, they still represent those who tried.

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

Today's youth will determine if we're going to fail or succeed in ending global poverty by 2030

Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.

The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor.

Success, just like poverty is a state of mind. You can become successful instantly with a simple decision and commitment. Long lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute, hour and day.

Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.