Poverty Stricken Quotes (15 quotes)

“Street children are lovely blossoms just dropped from the tree after a heavy storm. Now they need to be put together with a needle and threads of security and shelter to live into a beautiful circle of life’s garland”
― Munia Khan

tags: blossom, blossoms, children, circle-of-life, flowers, garland, homeless, homelesskids, homelessness, kids, live, poverty, poverty-stricken, storm, street, street-child, street-kids, trees, wise-words

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“If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

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“When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: bank, beggar, bereave, business, conserve, cutback, drink, economy, free, government, great-depression, impoverished, issues, jobless, money, nothing-is-free, pay, poverty-stricken, problems-in-the-world, profit, recession, rob, scare, struggle, swindle, take-more, thirst, threaten, today-s-society, water, water-fountain, withhold

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“A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: affluent, bashful, broke, confidence, confident, destitute, introvert, introverted, low-self-esteem, money, needy, penniless, poor, poverty, poverty-stricken, reserved, rich, self-conscious, self-consciousness, self-esteem, sheepish, shy, shyness, timid, wealth, wealthy

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“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

tags: appearance, big-boned, chubby, fat, looks, obese, obesity, overweight, poor, poverty, poverty-stricken, rich, tendency, victim, victims, wealth, wealthy

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“Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: affluent, comfort, consolation, consolation-prize, console, dead, death, hereafter, immortal, immortality, life, life-after-death, mortal, mortality, poor, poverty, poverty-stricken, rich, wealth, wealthy

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“Money is not the root of all evil. Poverty of the mind is.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

tags: mentality, poor-people, poverty-mindset, poverty-stricken, poverty-wealth, root, scarcity-mentality, small-minded, the-poor, wealth-mindset

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“The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

tags: defeat, defense-policy, endurance, poverty-alleviation, poverty-inequality, poverty-stricken, problem-solving, problems, problems-in-life

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“Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: appetizing, delicious, finger-licking, flavorful, flavourful, food, leftovers, mouthwatering, palatable, poor, poverty, poverty-stricken, scrumptious, starvation, starve, tasty, toothsome, yummy

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“Not every poor or unemployed person who has one wears a political party’s t-shirt to reveal their political affiliation; some use it merely to conceal their nipples.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: affiliation, campaign, clothed, clothes, clothing, democracy, elections, employee, employees, employer, employers, employment, job, naked, nude, political-campaign, politics, poor, poverty, poverty-stricken, propaganda, public-indecency, t-shirts, tees, work

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“Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: affirmative-action, affluence, affluent, bed, bedroom, beggary, broke, capital, cash, cleaned-out, destitute, destitution, dough, equality, filthy-rich, finance-assets, flat-broke, flush, fortune-money, funds, hard-up, hardship, holdings, house, impecunious, impecuniousness, impoverished, impoverishment, in-debt, in-the-money, indigence, indigent, inequality, insolvent, kitchen, loaded, low-income, lucre, made-of-money, means, moneyed, moneyless, moola, moolah, necessitous, need, neediness, needy, opulent, pauperdom, pauperism, pauperized, penniless, pennilessness, penury, poor, possessions, poverty, poverty-stricken, property, prosperity, prosperous, reserves, resources, riches, rolling-in-it, rolling-in-money, rolling-in-the-dough, securities, silk-stocking, size-counts, size-does-not-count, size-doesn-t-count, stinking-rich, stock, strapped-formal-penurious, substance, treasure, unable-to-make-ends-meet, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, wherewithal, without-a-cent-to-one-s-name, without-a-sou

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“Those who have the least are usually the ones who know the most about politics.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: deprived, disadvantaged, equality, impoverished, inequality, politics, poor, poverty, poverty-stricken, underprivileged

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“To rise out of poverty you must change your way of thinking. You can’t live in abundance with impoverished thoughts.”
― Germany Kent

tags: change-the-world-quotes, impoverished-thought, mindset-change, mindset-quotes, poverty-mindset, poverty-quotations, poverty-quotes, poverty-stricken, poverty-wealth, social-change-quotes

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“The poor cannot fast, because he cannot abstain from the food he cannot afford.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

tags: abstain, being-poor, fast, fasting, food, impoverished, poor-people, poverty-inequality, poverty-stricken, the-poor

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“The rich hear about starvation.
The poor can write a novel about it.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

tags: impoverished, poor-people, poverty-stricken, rags, rags-and-riches, rich-and-poor, starvation, starve, starving, the-poor

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