Edges Quote by Albion Fellows Bacon

Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different…

— Henning Mankell

Poverty is the lack of light.

— Lucero Isaac

poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end…

— Gabrielle Roy

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the…

— Michael Harrington

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun…

— Sherwood Anderson

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

— Narendra Modi

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I…

— Emma Thompson

What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.

— Walter Payton

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected…

— Viola Davis

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

— Ana Castillo

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

— Michael Drayton

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

— Mother Teresa