Poverty consist in feeling poor.

True poverty does not come from God.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber’s face.

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the...

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

There’s a point of poverty at which the spirit isn’t with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it’s almost as if you were talking to the soul itself....

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not...

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled...