“The biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a…”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”— Mother Teresa, books.google.com
“Maybe honesty isn't the best policy after all. Maybe it isn't a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he's been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“These are the forgotten men and women in our society, and they are angry at so much on so many levels. The poverty, the unemployment, the failing schools, the jobs moving to other countries. I am fighting for these forgotten Americans.”— Donald Trump, realclearpolitics.com
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”— Mother Teresa, amazon.com
“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.”— Roman Payne
“The leaders would nod their heads, and say ‘thank you very much,’ but then nothing would change. Unless there was an economic benefit, nobody cared about protecting children, or empowering women, or stopping genocide.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“Our inner cities have been left totally behind and I am going to fight to make sure every citizen of this country has a safe home, a safe school and a safe community.”— Donald Trump, c-span.org
“Violent crime has increased in cities across America. 'The New York Times' described the startling rise in murders in our major cities. Brutal drug cartels are spreading their reach into Virginia and Maryland. Too many Americans are trapped in fear, violence and poverty.”— Donald Trump, c-span.org
“The United States has the highest level of child poverty of any industrial society, followed by the rest of the English-speaking world.”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“There are overwhelming numbers of Americans who have not participated in the economic growth of the past year, or of the past 20 years, for that matter. They are being forced to mortgage their dreams— their American dreams— just to maintain where they are— just to get by. They have little or no hope…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“I’m very concerned about the 46.5 million people living in poverty, and the great majority of middle-class Americans who can barely afford their homes (or have lost them). I am very concerned for the people who can’t pay for the education of their children. In short, I am concerned for the people wh…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“I’m not as concerned about the kids growing up in wealthy communities, where high property taxes have allowed them to build great schools, hire the best teachers, and provide all the supplies they need. Those schools are doing fine. In many urban areas, however, schools must fight for every tax doll…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“There is no poverty and no wealth. There is merely an impoverished definition of wealth — in terms of economics and calculation. Unfortunately, the entire world’s poor have signed up to this definition which makes them poor to the second degree.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com