“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.” WellsLawPeaceWealthJusticeSleepPoorPovertyRichStreetsAngerEqualityStealingBreadBridgesRich And PoorMajesticRich PoorLaw And JusticeBreaking The LawJuristsRiches And PoorsLaw BreakingObeying The LawEquality Under The LawMajestic Beauty Author:Anatole France
“Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.” NeedsSleepPoorPovertyDoorsGoldBarsRejoiceGoing To Sleep Author:Robert B. Leighton
“There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.” MenDoeDesireWealthSleepPovertyVirtueRichDoorsLimitsSatisfactionHappySettingSettingsMiserableBeing HappyBeggarRich ManTibetanMiserable People Author:Dalai Lama
“My family spent many years sleeping side by side in the same room. It's important for me to not separate myself from them or to say that I've suffered more than they have because I'm gay. We all suffered from the same political rejection, and from poverty. When you're starving with eleven other people in the same room, you become connected to them forever. We were all hungry at the same time.” PeopleYearsImportantPoliticalSidesSleepRoomsPovertyForeverGayMy FamilyConnectedHungryRejectionStarvingEleven Author:Abdellah Taia
“Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even comprehend the individual things. Just take homelessness. If you are homeless, what does it mean not to have a post box where people can contact you; what does it mean not knowing where you're going to sleep at the end of the day; what does it mean not having a place where you can store what little you might possess. So dealing with homelessness in itself is a huge thing for most people who are commentators [on] or benefactors to poverty.” PeopleIfsMeanLittlesDoeEndsMightWould BeIndividualDifficultSleepPovertyKnowingHugeElementsBoxesStoresContactPostsThe End Of The DayNot KnowingHomelessHomelessnessGoing To SleepCommentatorsBenefactors Author:Kumi Naidoo
“We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the number of people that have to sleep without a roof over their heads, the number of people that are illiterate.The world is better.” PeopleWorldYearsSleepNumbersPovertyBedHungryRoofIlliterate Author:Michael Bloomberg
“What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.” PeopleCountryProblemMightFunnyChoicesFoundPoliticsSleepPovertyHomelessGrate Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan