Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.

Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.

The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something done, as we've done here in the strike and the boycott, then they continue to suffer - and maybe a little bit more - but the suffering becomes less important because they see a chance of progress; sometimes progress itself. They've been suffering all their live.s It's a question of suffering with some kind of hope now. That's better than suffering with no hope at all.

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

Why should there be such abject poverty?

The war on poverty is not a struggle simply to support people, to make them dependent on the generosity of others. It is a struggle to give people a chance.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.

I know what it is to have nothing.

I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

I've been traveling a lot, and I'm seeing a lot of desperation everywhere in America. A lot of sad desperation.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.