“It's not a little itty-bitty bean. It's an averaged sized bean. There are kids in parts of the world who would walk 50 miles through quicksand just so they could stick a toe in your swimming pool. There are kids who would eat beans because they've had nothing to eat their whole life but leaves and bark and roots.”

Ben Stiller - Tim Dingman

“Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.”
Jeff Bridges

“My kids never had the advantage I had. I was born poor.”
Kirk Douglas

“Rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health.”

Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler

“Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study.”

Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler