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Money can't buy poverty.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

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

You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.

In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.