Poverty Quotes
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I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
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Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.
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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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The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.
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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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In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.
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The beggarly last doit.
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Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people who have been dragged out of poverty as a result.
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Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.
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Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'
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My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.
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The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.
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If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.
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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.
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Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
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In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
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What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.
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Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.
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You have said that your first priority is the eradication of extreme poverty.
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What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers.
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Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all.
