- Men
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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
- Forum
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.
- Embody
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.
- Nov 07, 2020
I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality and poverty alleviation, and those issues are so important.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catholics want what other Americans want: access to health care and jobs that pay a living wage. They want to send their kids to good schools. They want something done about poverty.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their poverty was their own fault and, to demonstrate that, if you're not up to mark then you're sanctioned and the money stops.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.
- Darkest
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were the darkest of times, the years following the crash of the stock market in 1929. Thousands of people across the United States were cast out of their Jobs, off their farms, out of their homes and apartments, and into the crushing depths of poverty.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?
- Kashmir
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- Nov 07, 2020