"If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder."

— Russell D. Moore, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches 🌼

"it seemed that the pain of their physical illness at times was less than the misery of their poverty ridden existence, the unending wait in the queues and the feeling of hopelessness and abandonment by your own system was enough to rob them of their will power to fight any disease."

— Madhu Vajpayee, Seeking Redemption 🌼

"In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to be introduced to one another when they met on Main Street."

— Charles Bracelen Flood, Lee The Last Years 🌼

"There was a problem: No one cared about human rights anymore, not at home or abroad. They cared about growth--hoped for and celebrated in all the newspapers, invoked by zealous bureaucrats in every self-serving television interview. On this matter, the filmmaker was agnostic--he came from money, and couldn't see the urgency. Like many of his ilk, he sometimes confused poverty (which must be eradicated!) with folklore (which must be preserved!), but it was a genuine confusion, without a hint of ill intention, which only made it more infuriating."

— Daniel Alarcn, At Night We Walk in Circles 🌼

"As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth."

— Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project 🌼

"You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names."

— Craig Greenfield 🌼

"Such a little childTo send to be a priestling...Icy poverty"

— Shiki, Japanese Haiku 🌼

"Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that."

— William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good 🌼

"Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squatter camp.Matsime Simon Mohapi"

— Matsime Simon Mohapi, Poverty in the Land of Riches - South Africa 🌼

"Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!"

— Vera Nazarian 🌼

"By defining the problem as "hunger," the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality."

— Janet Poppendieck, Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement 🌼

"Not all developing countries are the same."

— Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It 🌼

"Recent evidence confirms that retail prices of essential consumer goods in poor countries are not appreciably lower than in the United States or Western Europe. In fact, with deregulation and "free trade", the cost of living in many Third World cities is now higher than in the United States. My experience in Latin America and Haiti is that the prices of meat, fish and fresh vegetables are about the same as in the United States. Can you imagine eating on less than one dollar a day?"

— Vincent A. Gallagher, The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization 🌼

"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."

— Stanley Victor Paskavich 🌼

"Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor."

— Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It 🌼

"Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The summer catch had been poor; there wasn't much food. They ate with care and looked sideways at the old: the old were gluttons, everybody knew it, and what was the good of feeding them? It wouldn't harm them to starve a little. The hungry dogs howled. The women rinsed the children's bellies with hot water three times a day, so they wouldn't cry so much for food. The old starved silently. ("The North")"

— Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories 🌼

"What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?"

— Paul A. Samuelson, Economics 🌼

"So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!"

— Ambrose Bierce, The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories 🌼

"This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic."

— Ian Smillie, Freedom from Want: The Remarkable Success Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That's Winning the Fight Against Poverty 🌼

"Sometimes being poor means having to choose between your principles and your survival."

— Paula Stokes, Hidden Pieces 🌼