In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.
A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people who have been dragged out of poverty as a result.
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.
Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policies helped produce massive income inequality by lopsided breaks for the super wealthy.
There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.
I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.
We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.
The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.
