As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.
Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.