#Poverty

"There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success."

"The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real."

"Getting rid of poverty is not about making the rich more aware: it’s about educating the poor and empowering them from within."

"Take a rain check on poverty with Cosmic Ordering."

"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."

"It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country."

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

"There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable"for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before."

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

"Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not ‘broken.’ Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it."

"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."

"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!"

"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."

"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little."

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

"Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M"is silent."

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

"A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)"

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

"And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty."