- Environmental
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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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- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are actually a very rich country with a lot of resources and the ability to do almost whatever we want. We could eliminate poverty in America by spending a fraction of what we spend on defense.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
- Debt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Macri's government caused damage similar to what Argentina suffered in 2001: a debt default, no foreign-currency reserves, a steep devaluation and increased poverty.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty has become a big problem.
- Extreme Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.
- American Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020