Hard Quote by Matthew Desmond

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

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until…

— J. K. Rowling

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

— Washington Irving

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

I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It's not just a material thing; it's a psychological thing that we have no…

— Eric Garcetti

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

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

— Washington Irving

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves…

— Muhammad Yunus