History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the...

The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The...

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was...

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: ‘We’ll be poor, won’t we? Like people in books. And I’ll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!’ She stopped and raised...

There’s nothing that says love like getting money as a gift, and then giving it away to the needy.

The most impoverished peasant can be delighted by the opening of the first spring flower, and the most wealthy aristocrat can curse the day he was born because of some petty offense to his sensibilities....

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in material forfeit; the other has forfeited all they are to material, and thus is enslaved, by it.

In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn’t unite; they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they...

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with...

When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.

It’s so funny you judge me arrogant after I succeeded.You didn’t help me at all when I was so poor and needy.

That’s it? That’s all that happens after you topple from grace? We lose our rubies and rations?” Marshall smirked. “Woe is me.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

Mtu anayesema pesa haijampa furaha hana nia ya kusaidia watu.

For me, TV and broke go together. Not as in, The TV is broken, but more of noticing that most people who watch too much TV are broke.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

Naten s’kisha gjume, me mbyste pendimi, kot thone qe pendimi te lehteson.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world; when our stomachs are full of delicious food; the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it.

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience...

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

By Rachel Corrie, aged 10 — 1990I’m here for other children.I’m here because I care.I’m here because children everywhere are suffering and because forty thousand people die each day from hunger.I’m here because those people...

An afro is a poor man’s haircut.

It’s not hard to marginalize people when they’ve already done it to themselves.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

Making the best of things is… a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them.

The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

The irony of life emerges when two categories of men give advices regarding contempt for wordly goods. One, the rich, who do not know at first hand, what poverty is and another, the poor, who...

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

Standing around making ten dollars an hour—that’s what they pay me the big bucks for.

If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself...

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield to others, for he knows others are above him: he is not stiff...

Even today we don’t pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder,...

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.

I am very poor – for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

It takes a real man to see the difference between a diamond and a rhinestone.Can’t be mad when someone else takes the diamond, that you treated like a rhinestone

Why are…poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their...

The poor stay poor here because they do not save enough.

Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poorso the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.

It’s scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?””It’s meant to be lavender.””No, Dex – it’s money. It smells of money.

This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.

Learning about Poverty’. ‘Two young American Jesuits showed up at the Jesuit headquarters in Rome. Father Arrupe asked what assignment had brought them there. They explained that they were on their way to India to...