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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty Quotes
On hardship, pretense, and the thin line between struggle and ruin.
These quotes describe poverty as something felt rather than just discussed—its nearness to wealth in some places, the pretense people keep up to hide it, and the social programs built to hold it back. See our poverty slogans for another angle.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is not the most important thing in life.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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- Nov 07, 2020