#poverty

I write to escape; to escape poverty. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#i #i write #poverty #write

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

#comfort #condition #every #hope #insupportable

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. ↗

— Thomas R. Kelly

#economic #god #loving #mistaken #nature

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#feeling #loneliness #most #poverty #terrible

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#food #hardship #invasion #lack #life

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#even #genius #imagine #man #poverty

Kakatwang isipin ano? Sa isang bansang uso ang fastfood, diet, at liposuction, milyon-milyon ang nagugutom. (Isn’t it funny? In a country where fastfood, diet, and liposuction are popular, millions are hungry.) ↗

— Kara David

#diet

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. ↗

— Bernie Sanders

#below #child #current #federal #full-time

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#another way #control #country #crushed #get

The rich old men start the wars, but it’s the poor young men who portend them. If they didn't get old and rich, some excuse might have to be found to launch invasions. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #old-age #poverty #war #wealth