Poverty Quotes
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Oh, poverty parts good company.
Walter Scott
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When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.
Matthew Desmond
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
Narendra Modi
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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
Aga Khan IV
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
Youssou N'Dour
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
Dambisa Moyo
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
Pericles
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The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
Ban Ki-moon
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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
Brown Campbell
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo