The seeds of poverty are with institutions, not individuals.

— Unknown Source

As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

— Unknown Source

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

— Eric Sevareid, U.S. author and CBS news journalist, 1912-1992

As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

— Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and Civil Rights Activist, 1925-1968

A hungry man is not a free man.

— Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. politician and diplomat, 1900-1965

Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.

— Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa, 1918-2013

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

— Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784

You’re better off being rich and guilty in the U.S. than poor and innocent.

— Bryan Stevenson, professor of law, author, and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative non-profit organization, Born 1959

Poverty – one thing money can’t buy.

— Lynwood L. Giacomini, U.S. publishing representative and a bibliophile, 1913-1991

The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.

— Russian proverb

Poverty is the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

— Eugene O’Neill, U.S. playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature, 1888-1953

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

— Henry George, U.S. socialist economist and journalist, 1839-1897

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

— William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

— Saki, [AKA Hector Hugh Monro], British writer considered as a master of the short story, 1870-1916
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