I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.
You have the ultimate power to overcome poverty; poverty does not have the right to dictate how you should struggle.
There is a poverty of the average human’s life, who is unnoticed by the world. It is the poverty of the commonplace. There is nothing heroic about it; it is the poverty of the common lot, devoid of ecstasy. Jesus was poor in this way. He was no mod...
There is no coat big enough to hide both poverty and drunkenness.
Poverty is even worse if you have to sleep on the edge of a crowded bed.
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squatter camp.Matsime Simon Mohapi
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.
In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.
I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Santa: Madam, I took a vow of poverty. And you can't talk about poverty... you have to live it.
The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.
When hard work goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.
The monkey says there is nothing better than poverty to unlearn man of his conceit.
The Poverty Tour provided the opportunity to meet many people who had been living paycheck to paycheck even before the economic downturn. To so quickly slide from the great middle into the underworld of the poor validated our suspicions that perhaps ...
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world...
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
