- 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.
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- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had done a lot of indie movies before I realized that acting could be a way for me to get my family out of poverty. It was at that point that I decided to take acting seriously.
- Naive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy . The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
- Each Night
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- Nov 07, 2020