Doorstep Quote by Shane Claiborne

We pass people in the street and ignore them when they're clearly suffering. It makes you wish we could all feel when someone needs…

— Andrew Haigh

If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we…

— Barack Obama

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain…

— Jorge Luis Borges

We can help poor people ,but poverty is a decision they make everyday and no one can cure it since they don't know what…

— Wordfaith3

If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and…

— Barack Obama

“the way we ignore the suffering of others and close our ears to their cries of pain. The way we disrespect our fellow man…

— Glenn Meade

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

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all,…

— Martin Sheen

The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights and equal…

— Edward Kennedy

We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide…

— Noam Chomsky

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

— Sharon Salzberg

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is…

— Sharon Salzberg