Poverty

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

"Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."

"Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor."

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

"We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule."

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."