Poverty is taking your children to the hospital and spending the whole day waiting with no one even taking your name, and then coming back the next day, and the next, until they finally get around to you

Quote by Janice Bradshaw

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Once thrift shops hit your district it is a good sign that more citizens are...

Once thrift shops hit your district it is a good sign that more citizens are...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that...

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries...

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries...

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of...

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of...

The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former...

The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former...

Poor people entertain with the heart

Poor people entertain with the heart

If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward...

If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward...

The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them

The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

It is better to be poor and live long than rich and die young

It is better to be poor and live long than rich and die young

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

Poverty is a career for lots of well paid people

Poverty is a career for lots of well paid people