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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no...

Francis of Assisi
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the...

Hans Rosling
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.

Auliq Ice
Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.

Anytime the rich and poor combine, we should listen to whoever has the least power. Rich people are conditioned to assess the world through our privileges. The powerful tend to discredit or ignore the...

Jen Hatmaker
Anytime the rich and poor combine, we should listen to whoever has the least power. Rich people are conditioned to assess the world through our privileges. The powerful tend to discredit or ignore the marginalized perspective because we can. We are shielded from the effects of a lopsided equation; we reap the benefits, not the losses. We don't mean to do this {or even know we do}, but we evaluate other communities through the lens of advantage assuming we know best, have the most to offer. In doing so we unintentionally elevate our perception.

The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.

Georges Simenon Maigret and the...
The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.

The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth,...

Maxim Gorky Twenty-Six Men...

She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.

Victor Hugo Les Miserables

the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.

Iain M. Banks Excession

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

Orhan Pamuk Snow

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

George Eliot Middlemarch

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

Ben Elton Meltdown
People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Naguib Mahfouz New Cairo
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