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I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.
It's not racist to say we can't take in the poverty of the world.
Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.
Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.
If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.
Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.
Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.
Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.
If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.
In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman
Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.
For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.
Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket
The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.