Teresa of Avila Quotes

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

The rich man in his castle / The poor man at his gate, / God made them high or lowly. / And ordered their estate.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

Poor men's words have little weight.

I consider the homeless just as important as the richest of the rich.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

I don't think we should stop emphasizing race because I think, you know, race is still very, very important, and we have to recognize that and continue to introduce programs to address racial inequities. But we have to widen our vision and also address the growing problems of economic class.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

There is another world out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow.

They [poor youth] don't have any respect for the property of others because they don't have any property.

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

Global poverty is a powder keg ignitable by our own indifference.

We are at great risk in our democracy for failing to understand the great depths of poverty.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.