Poverty Quotes
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If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank is to fight poverty with passion.' I had it put up there because I wanted something that unites us as an institution.
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When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.
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Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
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I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
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We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.
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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.
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Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!
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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
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America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
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I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.
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When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
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So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.
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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
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We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of 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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Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation.
Elliott Bisnow
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Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life.
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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
Chaka Fattah -
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.
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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.
