Quotes about Poverty

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
Frederick Douglass


“The mother of revolution and crime is poverty”
Aristotle

“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath: The Play

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”



― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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