Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great educator. Mostly it teaches, I am afraid, cynicism. But not...

Let’s think of that moment when a woman washed the feet of Jesus with the nard, so expensive: it is a religious moment, a moment of gratitude, a moment of love. And he [Judas] stands...

At least ten times as many people died from preventable, poverty-related diseases on September 11, 2011, as died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on that black day. The...

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God’s theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers,...

There are subgroups among the old who still have fairly high levels of poverty, including older women, and especially those who live alone.

A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

Don’t insult me today just because I’m poor, you don’t know what my future holds!

YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

I see a role for specialized knowledge, but I think that it’s important for there to be an arena where it is shared, where it is communicated. It’s not that somebody shouldn’t have specialized knowledge....

I don’t know. I got nothing. No house, no people, no place. Maybe that’s troubles. Don’t I say?

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

I had a dream about you. I was Nowhere Man, and I was there for you. I was as transparent as the current Presidential administration is invisible to the plight of the poor.

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never...

Here was the South Side–a million in captivity–stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn’t even read; depressed populations don’t have the time or energy to spare. The affluent...

Jacksonville has a rich history, full of poverty, plight, and poor economic decisions. If you follow the phrase “Follow the money” literally, you’d have left town decades ago.

This time of year,” she said, “people’s consciences gnaw at them. They give away truckloads of canned goods and quote Dickens and wring their hands over the ‘less fortunate.’” We boarded the Metro and took...

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation’s Marie Antoinette’s and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

We have nothing to show for our independence, except overwhelming poverty.

The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.

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...

Pretend to be poor in reality and you’ll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.

Heal the past and you’ll heal the present.” Kharis Macey

While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.

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

There is no virtue in poverty and illness. we all have been created to be healthy and wealthy with more than enough for everyone.

My advice: Don’t quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn’t give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive...

Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don’t they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no position to rebel; they just suffer quietly.

She missed — without knowing what she missed– paints and crayons

When I fed the hungry, they called me a saint. When I asked why people are hungry, they called me a communist.” Charity wins awards and applause but joining the poor gets you killed. People...

I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father’s house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.

Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.

It’s amazing how just dressing differently can affect your influence; dress like a beggar and your assumed poverty gains you looks of contempt; dress in gold-lined robes and people are more willing to accommodate you;...

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with the Blair/Orwell distinction) congratulates them on their forceful use of tautology:‘Orwell belonged to the category of writers who write.’...

Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi hupata jeuri ya kusema hivyo kutokana na umaskini wa watu wanaowazunguka.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

I have nothing, so I think having something would mean everything to me. But I don’t want to get to the point where I have everything, so having something would mean nothing to me.

Until you are there, you might not understand the language and pains of poverty

From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and myths that I learned to dream, to imagine a different life, to realize...

Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing...

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

By defining the problem as “hunger,” the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that...

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They...

WE MUST ALL EAT OR ELSE WE WILL PUT SAND IN YOUR FOOD.

Poverty knows no rules.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.