Top 33 Charity Poverty Quotes
#1. Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#2. Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
Chanakya
#3. Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.
Laurent Lamothe
#4. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.
Muhammad Yunus
#5. Because we live in a democracy, and the people can't govern themselves well if they don't know the truth about the world we live in. What if our rich citizens never hear of the poverty and suffering of the rest of the city? Why should they ever give to charity or vote for reform?
Rosslyn Elliott
#6. Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.
Ronald Rolheiser
#7. Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
#8. Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
Irwin Redlener
#9. If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery; then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world
M.F. Moonzajer
#10. Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in His Service, and so doing we shall please Him.
Francis De Sales
#11. Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Maimonides
#12. Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#13. Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.
Muhammad Yunus
#14. We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.
Muhammad Yunus
#16. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]
Nelson Mandela
#17. Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.
Jacques Diouf
#18. The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
Victor Hugo
#19. That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be
generous.
George Gissing
#20. Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.
James Cook
#21. When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Helder Camara
#22. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
Mother Teresa
#23. The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
Dorothy Day
#24. The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
Sri Aurobindo
#25. Charity had always slightly creeped me out: There was nothing quite as condescending as the phrase "helping the less fortunate" rolling off the tongue of a white professional, as if poverty were a matter of luck instead of the result of a political system.
Sara Miles
#26. Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.
Muhammad Yunus
#27. This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
Muhammad Yunus
#28. The church wanted us to give out food to malnourished children, but they didn't want us to question why they were malnourished to begin with.
Elvia Alvarado
#29. Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair.
Ronald Rolheiser
#30. I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#31. Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#32. When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.
Stefan Molyneux
#33. In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.
Peter Maurin
