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It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Marilynne Robinson

Tag: poverty

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 seats perpendicular to each other. "But God forbid anyone should address why they’re poor in the first place, or try to change the structures that keep them poor. Then the ‘less fortunate’ turn into ‘welfare queens’ and ‘derelicts.’ But if I were a lobbyist whoring on behalf of some transnational corporation, I’d never hear the word ‘derelict.’"

"So when it comes to taking care of poor people," I said, "if Mother Teresa is the Hallmark card, then you’re the electric bill.

Jeri Smith-Ready

Tag: poverty

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

John Steinbeck

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Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Ray Bradbury

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

Tag: society revolution poverty crime

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

Immanuel Kant

Tag: contentment poverty riches

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

E.M. Forster

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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Mother Teresa

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According to the 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 25.8 percent of [New Orleans] population lives below the poverty line... This is more than twice the national average, but is close tot he percentages in other American cities such as Miami (28.5), Los Angeles (22.1), Atlanta (24.4), and New York City (21.2).

Billy Sothern

Tag: poverty