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I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

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

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.