- Children
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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
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
- Gospel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's easier to relate to a personal story than to global data telling us that the majority of the billion people who live on less than $2 per day are women and girls. We are often told to never treat a person like a statistic.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republican politicians regularly churn out earnest policy wonkery and programs in the hope of raising more black children out of poverty. Black uplift remains an obsessive concern of white Republican philanthropists.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose, and she taught us how to be valiant in the face of oppression.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
- Burma
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- Nov 07, 2020