Affluence Quote by Dorothea Lange

“A photograph of poverty is not a photograph but it is a knife that sticks into the hearts of everyman who looks at it!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

— Gordon Parks

Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university centers being…

— Sasha Abramsky

“Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more…

— David duChemin

Affluence creates poverty.

— Marshall McLuhan

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

— Mother Teresa

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

— Viola Davis

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

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

— Anais Nin