Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

Complaint is poverty.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

We hate our squalor.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

nothing more afflicts the mind of man than Poverty

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.