Beautiful Quote by Shane Claiborne

Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,…

— Muriel Barbery

The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most…

— Rick Bragg

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their…

— Aga Khan IV

“if we were lucky enough to be living a good life, we should recognize this gift and thank God for it by looking out…

— John Wood

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

— Dilma Rousseff

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

— Hebrew Proverb

As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an NGO and…

— Katherine Boo

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

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief…

— Dorothy Day

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

— Teresa of Avila

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is…

— Nelson Mandela

For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by…

— Samuel Adams