Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment ...
Poverty is not a crime, but it's better not to show it.
Poverty is no shame -- but is no great honor either.
Poverty is not a sin, it's worse than that.
The doctor has a remedy for everything but poverty.
Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty; richness with unhappiness is not a real richness!
We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won
Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.
To an extreme athlete, there's a certain appeal to doing extreme things - seeking the most extreme physical challenges in some of the most extreme climates in the world. Testing and expanding the limits of human endurance is kind of my thing.
Poverty without debt is real wealth.
No better masters than poverty and want.
Shame lasts longer than poverty.
There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
Everyone wipes his feet on poverty.
Poverty is a sin that the rich never forgive.
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
True poverty does not come from God.
Poverty advances discrimination and corruption because society classifies the rich and poor. Poverty augments anger, selfishness, hatred and envy among the people. Poverty entwined with desperation ends up in violence." - Angelica Hopes, an excerpt f...
The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolv...
