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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best route out of poverty, to avoid food bank usage, is to make sure more people get a job.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ironically, socialist countries do tend to have immediate short term decreases in poverty before collapsing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.
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- Nov 07, 2020