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Poverty Quotes
Most Famous Poverty Quotes of All Time!
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
- Corrosive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Mexico, wealth and poverty live next to each other and are cordial with each other - in my experience.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing about universal free school meals is that they would remove one of the embarrassing signals, easily picked up by children's supersensitive antennae, of family poverty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it accumulated over the course of one historical process that has devastated the societies and cultures of four continents.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Brooklyn, in what I now know was poverty. Sharing a tiny bedroom with my two brothers, eating government cheese and passing down sneakers until they were unpassable... I simply thought the whole world lived as such, especially in pre-gentrified Williamsburg of the 1980s.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Defeating malaria is absolutely critical to ending poverty, improving the health of millions, and enabling future generations to reach their full potential.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
- Extreme Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.
- Financial Services
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge in Sanskrit will go a long way in finding solutions to the contemporary problems like global warming, unsustainable consumption, civilisational clash, poverty, terrorism, etc.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a mother feels cold, she asks the child to wear a sweater. Our concept of poverty is that way. When we do a project and people receive our help, we may think that they are getting benefited, but is this what they really wanted?
- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.
- Coupled
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is bad enough, but coupled with spiritual poverty, it kills.
- Class Warfare
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.
- Economic Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America's elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the key principles of Trumponomics is that faster economic growth can help solve a multitude of other social and economic problems, from poverty to inner-city decline to lowering the national debt.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting women first would mean strengthening America's social safety net, because a higher proportion of single-mother families live in poverty here than in any other wealthy country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don't know. It's hard to be very optimistic if you look at how humans have behaved historically.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to school and graduated as class valedictorian - the only one of her seven siblings to finish high school. She became a librarian and then a United Methodist minister.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to consult. And, along with my dad, she even ran a soul food restaurant for my great-aunt.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society.
- Financial Services
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- Nov 07, 2020
Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums. And that rooftop did not have any ceiling, only half a tin sheet. That was our first school.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance.
- Nov 07, 2020
CPEC will play its important role for eliminating terrorism and extremism and poverty alleviation in the region.
- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is the root of all evil.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
While government clearly plays the major role in fighting poverty through policies on things such as education, tax, and trade, business creates the wealth that matters.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids who are the victims of broken families are more likely to end up in poverty, rehab, or jail. I'm a Republican, but I respect President Obama for setting the right example and addressing this problem.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020