Poverty Quotes
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Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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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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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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By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.
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Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.
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Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
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We need to tackle energy poverty.
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The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
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Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.
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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.
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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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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
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While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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I believe in microfinance because it isn't just a path out of poverty. It's the road to self-reliance. By allowing people to team up and literally become their own bank, you can mobilize people and resources and alleviate poverty on the global scale.
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It's not racist to say we can't take in the poverty of the world.
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I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.
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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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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
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The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.
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Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.
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I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
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City farming is not only possible, it is the very definition of the kind of meaningful, sustainable innovation we will need to meet the grand challenges of the 21st century: climate change; population growth; ageing population; urbanization; rising demand for energy, food and water; poverty; and access to healthcare.
