- Money
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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
- Grinding
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- Nov 07, 2020
We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will always think about uplifting the lives of the poor because I know what they feel. I have not heard about poverty; I have not read about poverty: I have experienced poverty.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme poverty.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enterprise zones have succeeded in attracting needed capital to our urban poverty centers. Businesses and investors that wouldn't otherwise give these blighted areas a second glance react to the incentives and invest.
- Considerably
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
- Celebrity Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020