219 quotes found
“Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.”
“It's sad to see the world live in ignorance full of pain only enjoyed luxuriously by the few stupid greedy ones.”
“Poverty is the events of forced separation of mass from the nature. Poverty is not the cause but the outcome. Poverty is not natural, it is created, it is abnormal, unexpected and unwanted. Its was...”
“Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mindis free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there isno seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inward...”
“It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that idea becau...”
“There are three ways YOU can GET OUT of abject poverty. The first is inheritance which is always volatile and very scarce. The second is Education which very sustainable. The third and the most EFF...”
“As for my own answers to any of this? I have none. I'm far more confused than before I first went. I've had no great epiphanies, no profound realisations, but since returning home I've resigned mys...”
“Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white?”
“You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.”
“The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.”
“When you hear her say,'What else can an old woman doon hills as wretched as these?'You look right at the sky,Clear through the bullet holes she has for eyes.And you look onthe cracks that begin aro...”
“Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had ca...”
“Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn't even read; depressed populations don't have the time or energy to spare. ...”
“Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with unhealthy environmental factors, you will think poorly, speak poorly, ac...”
“Illness and death are not the only consequences of the lack of access to water; it also hinders education and economic development. Widespread illness makes countries less productive, more dependen...”
“It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!”
“ Rich people is people who only cares for themselves, and their money but, poor people doesn't care how much money they have because they have a big heart”
“Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.”
“Poverty is being single.”
“Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!”
