Challenges Quote by Amartya Sen

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of…

— James Gustave Speth

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Most poverty is a lack of opportunity.”

— Adam LiVecchi

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

— Kevin de Leon

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

— Dervla Murphy

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support…

— John Hope Bryant

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts…

— J. K. Rowling

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen