The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
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.
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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.
I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.