Poverty

Poverty

Poverty is the deprivation of food, shelter, money and clothing that occurs when people cannot satisfy their basic needs. Poverty can be understood simply as a lack of money, or more broadly in terms of barriers to everyday life.

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Famous quotes containing the word poverty:

    “Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    ““It’s a wery remarkable circumstance, sir”, said Sam, “that poverty and oysters seems to go together.””
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)