Poverty Quotes
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The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.
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Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.
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Believe in poverty and you will be poor. Believe in wealth and you will be rich. Believe in love and you will have love. Believe in health and you will be healthy.
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The factory work that lifted millions out of poverty in places like China and Vietnam probably did cost some workers in North Carolina and Wallonia their jobs.
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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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There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.
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But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
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I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam.
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel -
Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.
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I'm a killer, girl, I’m sorry, but I can't change We ain't aimin' for your body, shots hit your brain We come from poverty, man, we ain't have a thing It's a lot of animosity, but they won't say my name
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The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
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Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
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There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.
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I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?
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There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
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I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
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The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.
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You have said that your first priority is the eradication of extreme poverty.
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The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.
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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
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How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
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Affluence creates poverty.
