Connection Quote by Bryant McGill

“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in…

— Dean Karlan

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

— Jacob Dinezon

“This is the only poverty: ignorance of oneself—there is no other poverty.”

— Osho

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“The typical poverty program creates dependency, robs people of dignity, stifles initiative, and can foster a “What have you done for me lately?” sense…

— Barry Asmus

“Even the poorest among us deserves the dignity of equality.”

— The Prophet of Life

“Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.”

— Paula Brackston

“Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to…

— Hannah Kent

“Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice towards other…

— Sunday Adelaja

“In the final analysis, poverty means death: lack of food and housing, the inability to attend properly to health and education needs, the exploitation…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For…

— Muhammad Yunus

“…poverty is not interesting, either to the poor or to the rich. It is the curse of the decent poor to be so utterly…

— Earl Shorris