Poverty

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

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Cold, hunger and the shame of poverty are more likely to affect one's psychology."

"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."

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor"

"The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor."

"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."