Poverty Quotes
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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.
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We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.
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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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Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.
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The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
Chaka Fattah -
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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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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Money can't buy poverty.
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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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I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.
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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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Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!
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People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.
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If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled, I see that perhaps for a second time, the court’s inability to mete out justice in a blind fashion, why shouldn’t I vent my anger?
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Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.
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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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Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.
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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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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.
