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In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had- A Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up it's feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.


Barbara Kingsolver


#happiness #poverty #imagination

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.


Rick Bragg


#success #life

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.


Peter Singer


#life

I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.


K.P. Yohannan


#christian-living #poverty #love

As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!" Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand. Mike said, "I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops." "Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you," Mitchell said. "Yeah, well," Mike said, "obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#calcutta #charity #jesus #poor #poverty

The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.


Maxim Gorky


#poverty #men

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.


Raymond Chandler


#money #poverty #money

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.


George Bernard Shaw


#money #poverty #money

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.


Charles Bukowski


#poverty #youth #need

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.


John Green


#poverty #them #us #man






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