Midrash Quotes

nothing more afflicts the mind of man than Poverty

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

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

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

Complaint is poverty.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Why should there be such abject poverty?

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.