31. If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin

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32. Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

Anonymous

33. 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

34. Poverty is the mother of crime.

Marcus Aurelius

35. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Coco Chanel

36. Poverty is a lot like childbirth – you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you’ll never know how much until you experience it.

Joanne Kathleen Rowling

37. In the World's Richest Nation You Can Work Full Time & Still Live in Poverty.

Sister Simone Campbell

38. Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich! — She sang this “Song of the Shirt

Thomas Hood

39. Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being.

Amartya Sen

40. No two things differ more than abstract and actual poverty.

Mary Ferrier

41. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked, and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our … kind of poverty.

Mother Teresa

42. If You Cant Feed A Hundred People Then Feed Just One.

Mother Teresa

43. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

John F. Kennedy

44. The opposite of poverty is not wealth, the opposite of poverty is justice.

Bryan Stevenson

45. Poverty is not natural – It is man-made.

Nelson Mandela