We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
Madeleine Albright

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
Jean de la Bruyere

If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
Jean de la Bruyere

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. Rap Brown

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
H. Rap Brown

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
H. Rap Brown

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
Edward Gibbon

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
Margaret Sanger

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).
Margaret Sanger

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
Dennis Banks

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
Joseph E. Stiglitz

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
Al Franken

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
William Pitt

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Raoul Vaneigem

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Swami Sivananda

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
Jeremy Rifkin

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
Pam Grier