1.) ”As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.”. Henry Ford
2.) ”Liberals fought poverty and poverty won.”. Ronald Reagan
3.) ”The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.”. Jorge Luis Borges
4.) ”When a third wave of poverty overwhelmed me, I knew with even greater certitude than when I lived in Clerkenwell that the only complete solution to my problems was suicide. I never brought it off. I was afraid... Hopelessness was thinly spread like a drizzle over my whole outlook. But, in an emergency, I could not find a puddle of despondency deep enough to drown in.”. Quentin Crisp
5.) ”Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”. Francis of Assisi
6.) ”During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.”. Sal Albanese
7.) ”Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”. James A. Baldwin
8.) ”Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.”. Morena Baccarin
9.) ”Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.”. Pat Barker
10.) ”I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.”. Roberto Benigni
These are the 10 best poverty Quotes!