Victims Of Poverty Quotes

#1. It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. For they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.

Louisa May Alcott

#3. POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#5. Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

#6. Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

Jean Dujardin

#8. If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a chef. I'd love to open a restaurant.

Blake Lively

#9. Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.

Alice Hoffman

#10. When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

Alex Gibney

#11. They were too much to carry
so i left them behind
for a new life, in a new place
but no one forgot who i was
i didn't
and neither did the people who watch
they watched for years
they watch now

Ally Condie

#12. How he'd piss on the mattress and shove my face in it, force me to finger his ass while he'd beat himself off.

E.K. Blair

#13. In the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking ... Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

Antonio Guterres

#14. I feel 21. I've looked after myself and take my football seriously.

Jermain Defoe

#15. My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.

Olaf Stapledon

#16. In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

Isabel Allende

#17. If it is possible, it is done. If it is impossible ... it will be done.

Evel Knievel

#18. The person who is too smart to love is truly an idiot.

Neil Strauss

#19. What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

Elizabeth Edwards

#20. Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Robert Adamson

#21. Only you should decide for you what is perfect.

Ellen Hopkins

#22. It's not easy to be optimistic and hopeful after you come to know and love some of the young victims of sexual abuse, violence, poverty, neglect, drugs, and rape. It's taking me a while to climb out of this hatred, this noxious cynicism. I'm doing my best.

M.T. Johnson

#23. I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

George Carlin

#24. The loneliness comes to me in certain hours everyday, like a visitor. Like a friend you never expected, a friend you never really want to be with, but he always visit you and love you somehow,

Xiaolu Guo