poverty
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
“To a rich man, the time to dine is when you will; to a poor man, when you can.”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.”
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
“If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”