Caroline Lucas Quotes

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

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

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

Poverty fills armies, mans navies.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

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

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

The real threat to the democracy is the half a nation in poverty.

Poverty abides no line drawn by color or culture.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

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