Poverty Quotes
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Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Antiphanes
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Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and ill health in the world.
Angus Deaton
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The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the north of India, where there's horrendous poverty. The number of girls in many of these places is so low that it has social consequences. You get young men without jobs and without women, and this leads to chaos and political danger. But the south of India is very different.
Barbara Crossette
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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
Ellen Wilkinson
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Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts.
Plutarch
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There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.
Matthew Lesko
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These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.
Marcy Kaptur
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As policy makers, Congress has the power to promote public policies that economically empower single parents and drastically reduce childhood poverty.
Marc Veasey
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Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
W. Graham Scroggie
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Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best.
Anthony Robbins
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If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.
Jim Yong Kim
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The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.
Van Jones
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Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
Henry Louis Gates
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Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
John A. Powell
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A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
