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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.
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- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
- Life Is A
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- Nov 07, 2020
The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.
- Community Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to tackle energy poverty.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020