"Poverty is the worst form of violence." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit." -- Eli Khamarov

"The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty." -- George Bernard Shaw

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have enough; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt