Poverty Quotes
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If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?
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The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).
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The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.
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Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.
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In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.
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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.
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Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.
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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.
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He is everything, and as we are joined to Him the poverty of our personal identity is lost in the fullness of His eternal greatness.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse
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I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I'll never forget those things.
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The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.
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It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.
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There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
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He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
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Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.
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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land,In England there shall be dear bread-in Ireland, sword and brand;And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand,So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand,Of the fine old English Tory days;Hail to the coming time!
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
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As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
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Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.
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Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities, high levels of poverty, or even disaster, urban fragility increases exponentially, making it harder to absorb the shocks of warfare.
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No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
