Poverty Quotes
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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.
Jake Tapper
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Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
L. Neil Smith
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Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
Anna Lindh
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Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!
Caitlin Moran
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What is science? yard-measure and scale to philosophy, expert-accountant, bank clerk. What is poetry? miserable, ill-fed, underpaid, unionized labourer, pleased to oblige, grateful for work, flattering himself that poverty makes him an aristocrat.
Laura Riding
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Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.
Ana Castillo
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While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.
Jack Straw
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Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.
Benjamin Hooks
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We are trying to end poverty in the world by 2030 and we’re going to focus especially on the well-being of the bottom 40 per cent of every country.
Jim Yong Kim
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The only way really to influence countries, in terms of poverty, is to get them to change their policies and get them to understand what the issues are.
James Wolfensohn
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No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country.
Jeh Johnson
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And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.
Artur Davis
