Curley Murphy

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

“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

“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

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi