The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.

Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.

Hungry people are always thinking about food; poor people are always thinking about wealth. Obsessive thinking can kill your dreams!

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

For me, TV and broke go together. Not as in, The TV is broken, but more of noticing that most people who watch too much TV are broke.

But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row.""There are some real weirdos down there.""They're everywhere.

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.