Poverty Quotes
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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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I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.
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At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.
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Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.
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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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It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
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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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There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
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We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.
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The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered
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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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Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.
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We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.
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The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.
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You know there's problems - you can see all the poverty and so on - but it's quite another matter to know what you can do about it.
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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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When I travel, I make certain that I spend at least half of my time in the field. You have to get out to meet people that are in poverty, that are looking to improve their lives. That's something that you can't read in books.
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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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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
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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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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
