#Poverty

"America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty."

"The best investment for poverty elimination is education."

"Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon."

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."

"Poor is the man who thinks money makes him wealthy. Love is the true treasure, and the more you give away, the more you have."

"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable."

"Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......"

"I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times."

"For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God."

"Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps."

"In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves."

"Under the guise of being nice guys, the central bankers have done to the people what no army in history has been evil enough to do."

"I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all."

"Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope."

"Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth."

"A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him."

"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."