People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

Standing around making ten dollars an hour—that’s what they pay me the big bucks for.

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Growing up I was so poor I wore coffee cups as shoes. The good part was my feet never fell asleep.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

Everyday 25,000 people die from poverty and hunger. And we have forgotten that they are also human.

A big hole in a poor child’s shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Certainly, the wealth of the rich is a consequence of the poverty of the poor. (Lori Altmann, p. 85)

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.