- All-Out
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have our own script. We have our own calendar. We represent the greatness of Africa's past. We also represent the worst of Africa's present, in terms of poverty. It is the best and the worst of African reality.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.
- Position
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money can't buy poverty.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020