We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.
we are slaves to the cost of living.
It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.
Poverty is not natural; it is man-made
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.
Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!
And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.
. . . Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
To really tackle poverty, politicians, activists, academics will all have to think outside their boxes, will have to start developing much more integrated approaches to these problems. And a large part of this will involve working out ways to push for living wages. Partly this will involve re-empowering the union movement, which has been massively weakened in recent decades. Partly it will involve a willingness to restructure tax codes to penalize companies that don't provide basic benefits and decent wages to employees.
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat. , Paupertas. . . omnes artes perdocet. ]
Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.
What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
Who, being loved, is poor?
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!