Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now. " "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?
Do not romanticize the poor. . . We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.
I just hated poverty.
It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.
We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.
Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.
I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured-disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui-in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.
Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.
Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.
We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.
The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
I know what poverty is.
Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?