Candlelight Quote by Ban Ki-moon

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

— Matthew Desmond

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there…

— Andrew Carnegie

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is…

— Moon Jae-in

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

— S. Truett Cathy

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a…

— Gordon Parks

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do…

— Narendra Modi

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…

— Bernard Hill

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

— Walter Inglis Anderson

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed,…

— Iman Abdulmajid

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

— Aleksandr Kuprin