Poverty Quotes
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It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
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To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
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If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
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Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.
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It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
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America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.
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We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.
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I have very clear ideas about what it’s going to take to end extreme poverty and to share prosperity. In fact, this is what I’ve been doing my whole life. I feel like I’m here for a reason.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
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For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.
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For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.
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I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.
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If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.
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It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty.
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While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.
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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
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I'm the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a family of social enterprises - Samasource, Samahope and SamaUSA - that are working to alleviate poverty by connecting the global community to opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and here in the U.S.
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The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.
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The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
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The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.
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If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.
