Poverty Quotes
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Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs.
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I'm proud of Big K.R.I.T., I'm proud that the person that came after me shares so many similar views as mine. From him being a producer, to him being a God-fearing man - being political in a sense that he wants to see the poverty-stricken do better. He wants to be the spokesperson for them.
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Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.
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Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
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... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.
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All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.
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The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
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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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Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
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People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply loved.
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Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.
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We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.
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It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
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'Poverty' Pitt exclaimed 'is no disgrace but it is damned annoying.' In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.
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people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.
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It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
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When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
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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.
