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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
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stand up for our sick. Stand up for our veterans. Stand up for the elderly. Protect things like Social Security. Stop allowing people to stick their hands in the cookie jar. Create opportunities for people who live in poverty to elevate themselves out of poverty with a hand up, not a hand out. That's what being a Democrat is!
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we shift our public dollars away from our schools and city services and into company developments, it increases the root causes of poverty: unemployment, underemployment, lack of community resources, and lack of quality public education.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We continue to see our elected officials working extra hard to create a 'good climate for business' that leads to disinvestment in public infrastructure and tax incentives to the detriment of cities, while enriching private business and further entrenching poverty. And our cities are told by legislators to use their bootstraps to survive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have so much poverty in our country. Not every parent can afford to buy their kids all the frills and perks, but teenagers still demand it, and are we responsible for it!
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- Nov 07, 2020
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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- Nov 07, 2020