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Poverty
Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite
than food.
~Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you
may live as you wish
Mother Teresa
Population of Community of Residence
Family Size
500,000 +
100,000-499,999
30,000-99,999
Less than 30,000*
Rural
1 $18,841 $16,160 $16,048 $14,933 $13,021
2 $23,551 $20,200 $20,060 $18,666 $16,275
3 $29,290 $25,123 $24,948 $23,214 $20,242
4 $35,455 $30,411 $30,200 $28,101 $24,502
5 $39,633 $33,995 $33,758 $31,412 $27,390
6 $43,811 $37,579 $37,317 $34,722 $30,278
7 + $47,988 $41,163 $40,875 $38,033 $33,166
Remember the poor – it costs nothing
Mark Twain
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for
every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of
poverty
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Real poverty is lack of books
Sinonie Gabrielle
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn
only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's
property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor
Barber B. Conable
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ~Eli Khamarov, Lives of the
Cognoscenti
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease
from which our civilization suffers. ~William James
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of
being unloved
Mother Teresa
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was
before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the
rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not
pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy
has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
~John Berger
