Poverty Quotes
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I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
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Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
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Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.
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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world's resources.
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This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.
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Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.
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I offer you what I have my Poverty
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My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.
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Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.
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Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.
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You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.
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A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
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It's not racist to say we can't take in the poverty of the world.
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
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If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.
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The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
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The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
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Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.
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…in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.
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Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.
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The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.
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The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.
