#Poverty

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

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

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

"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."

"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."

"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."

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

"When she tried to seduce me, I got suspicious, thinking she was just after my massive fortune. Then I relaxed, when I remembered I'm poor."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"I hate the smell of success, because most of the time it smells like sweat. Maybe that’s why I’m poor, because every pore on my body is dry."

"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."