America Quote by Harry Belafonte

poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end…

— Gabrielle Roy

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

— S. Truett Cathy

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend…

— Nelson Mandela

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to…

— Narendra Modi

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

— Roger McDonald

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from…

— Thein Sein

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest…

— Mother Teresa

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of…

— Johan Norberg

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't…

— Tom Waits

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 a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,…

— Wes Moore

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

— Anonymous