Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

I just hated poverty.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Complaint is poverty.

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

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

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.