Poverty Quotes
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I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.
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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
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Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.
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Poverty is the greatest violence.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
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It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
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Beyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
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And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
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Bolivia also depends not only on tin and other minerals, but also depends on the gas and oil. A rational extraction should be made, taking care of the environment. We should give added value to this natural resource, and generate revenue to fight poverty with more resources, that come from natural resources.
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Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.
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It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.
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There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.
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The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.
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Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
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Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.
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One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.
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Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!
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There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.
