- Corruption
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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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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see the minimum wage as a fight between capital and labor, between persistent small businesses and diligent employees. I think offering New Mexicans a pathway out of poverty helps all of us, no matter which side of the check you sign.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.
- Discriminatory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed citizen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and billions of others have that choice imposed upon them by poverty.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship.
- Obesity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.
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- Nov 07, 2020