Deprivation Quote by James Gustave Speth

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

— Amartya Sen

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 denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

— Dervla Murphy

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima

Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support…

— John Hope Bryant

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

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

“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

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently…

— Samuel Johnson

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

— Peter Singer

“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without…

— Secundus the Silent

Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the…

— William Cobbett