#poverty

The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#poverty #love

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#hunger #love #poverty #stupidity #written

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#glaring #look #poverty #revolution #soon

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. ↗

— Edward Bellamy

#men

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#constant #continual #developing #famine #fear

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#christianity #god #heaven #help #kingdom

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#american #american dream #barack #barack obama #class

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace. ↗

— Criss Jami

#content #contentment #eating #enjoyment #faith

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family

It wasn't poverty that drove me on. ↗

— Aleksandr Kuprin

#me #poverty