“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.” MadeValuesLiteratureBornPoorPovertyFateTaughtTrue Value Author:Anatole France
“Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.” HelpingEyeGirlPovertyWorryTaughtSorrowHollywoodBackgroundsCodeInterviewsBritainRaysScandalBlairSubtext Author:Peter York
“Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.” SelfPhilosophyHelpingForcePovertyTeachPracticeTaughtReasoningSelf Taught Author:Diogenes
“Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.” ChildrenYoungHatePovertyTaughtTragedyTerrorismYoung Children Author:Jane Goodall
“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.” YearsSchoolYoungCitiesPovertyFiveSawsTeacherViolenceNew YorkStudentsTaughtDrugActivityLowsAbuseStressImpactIncomeParksFive YearsSunsetNeighborhoodAffectedNew York CityClassroomDomestic ViolenceGangPublic SchoolElevenFive Year OldsSchool TeachersDrug AbuseLow Income Author:Sal Albanese
“... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread depends upon their labour, are taught to believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it.” ThinkingBelieveWholeYoungGirlWishHalfClassPovertyTaughtParticularDependsCitizensPaperBreadNakedServantLatterLabourRepublicArticlesSubmitYoung WomenWagesPettyTreasonMills Author:Frances Trollope
“As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.” ChildrenIndividualParentPovertyEffectsTaughtKeysImportanceSevereImprovingIlliteracyImportance Of Education Author:Naveen Jain
“...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.” MenWayLoveGivingMadeSeemsAgeFightingNaturalPovertyTaughtBearsComfortHusbandLongingMeg Book:Little Women Source: Little Women