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  • #1
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #2
    Immanuel Kant
    “We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
    Immanuel Kant

  • #3
    Aristotle
    “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
    Aristotle

  • #4
    Eugene V. Debs
    “I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
    Eugene Debs

  • #5
    Victor Hugo
    “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #7
    Charles Darwin
    “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
    Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

  • #8
    Rick Bragg
    “Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
    Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    Herman Melville
    “A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
    Herman Melville

  • #11
    Muhammad Yunus
    “Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.”
    Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

  • #12
    Mother Teresa
    “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #13
    Jeffrey D. Sachs
    “History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
    Jeffrey Sachs

  • #14
    Plutarch
    “An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
    Plutarch

  • #15
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.”
    Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Orhan Pamuk
    “We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction”
    Orhan Pamuk, Snow

  • #18
    Rick Bragg
    “It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.”
    Rick Bragg



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