How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.
But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Affluence creates poverty.
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.