2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Denny thought our parents needed a combination of material goods and temperamental changes before he could return home. “If Dad buys Ma a car, then she’ll love him, and they’ll get back together and she won’t be all crazy anymore,” he said. For years he held out the possibility that those things would happen and all would change. “If we had more things, like stoves and cars,” he told me at night in our bedroom, “and Ma wasn’t like she is, we could go home.

I Live in Poverty and That's My Inspiration

أكره الخيام!أكره رمزيتها!هي ليست منزلًا وهي ليست بوطن!هي تمنعنا من النظر إلى النجوم ولا تعطينا أرضًا مريحة للنوم.ماذا لو كان هناك دولة لشعوب الخيام!هل سيسكن زعيم تلك الدولة بخيمة أم داخل قصر؟هل سيقدر على الإحساس بمشاكل وهموم شعبه من قصره؟وهل ستكون له القدرة لإصلاح حال شعبه إن كان هو أيضًا يعيش بخيمة مثلهم؟!ربما نحن لا نليق لأن نكون كتلة منظمة!ربما نحن مثل بثور على البشرة!ماذا تفعل أدوية ومراهم البثور؟هل تعمل على إزالة البثور من على الجلد تمامًا؟أم أنها تحول البثور إلى جلد سليم؟

هل الجوع سبب أم نتيجة؟هل الجوع هو الذي يمنعنا من تطوير أنفسنا وأماكن سكننا؟ هل هو السد الذي يقف أمام بنائنا للمدارس وتعليم الأطفال؟ أللجوع نُعزي عدم إنشائنا للمستشفيات والعيادات الطبية؟أم نحن جائعون لأننا لم نقدر على تعليم أنفسنا من البداية؟

There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor

Lopez made sandals out of one tire. He sold them at ten cents each, because people sometimes needed only one.

Most families around town only had a bottle of aspirin in their medicine cabinets. If you had the flu, you took an aspirin. If you had a toothache, you took an aspirin. If you were bitten by a snake, you took an aspirin. If you developed kidney problems from taking too much aspirin, you took an aspirin. You wouldn't even think of going to the emergency room unless your leg was hanging by a thread. And even then you might wait a while.

Let's think of that moment when a woman washed the feet of Jesus with the nard, so expensive: it is a religious moment, a moment of gratitude, a moment of love. And he [Judas] stands apart with bitter criticism: 'But this could have been used for the poor!' This is the first reference that I have found, in the Gospel, to poverty as an ideology. The ideologue does not know what love is, because he does nt know how to give himself.

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?