- Poverty is the worst form of violence – Indira Gandhi
- Best way to help poor is not to be one of them – Carnegie Mellon
- Poor’s basic mobility is from village to urban slums
- Poverty or Arm race:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed – Eisenhower
- “The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.” Justice Krishna Iyer on Social Justice