Chicago Quote by Barack Obama

“I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi…

— Barack Obama

I began to do documentary photographs of poverty which is very widespread in Indonesia. There's terrible poverty. These are people who have jobs, raise…

— James Nachtwey

When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are…

— Lily Yeh

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence…

— Heather O'Neill

“Many children, early on, acquire a love of places they have never been. Often, such wonder is summarily crushed on the crawl through the…

— Steven Erikson

“we sometimes fail to recognize the signs of poverty, loneliness, grief, fear, and desolation in our own city, our own village, or our own…

— Karen Armstrong

The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings,…

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I…

— Matthew Desmond

“beyond blows and hunger there is something that hurts even more: poverty”

— Jacob Dinezon

“What's happened here, Sayid? There never used to be such begging." "You are right," he said. "I believe they have learned this thing from…

— Barack Obama

“Growing up in a home where children continually witness abuse and violence will leave them living every day feeling anxious and depressed, and they…

— Shelia Johnson

When you grow up in poverty, suffer from abuse, live in a violent neighborhood, come from a broken home, lack positive role models, are…

— Christine Tsai