Poverty Quotes
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
Sam Brownback
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There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sickrooms, in poverty, in racking suspense and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
Hank Johnson
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.
Joe R. Lansdale
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
Naveen Jain
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
Kailash Satyarthi
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I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.
ASAP Rocky
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo
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Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.
Antisthenes
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After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).
Warren Farrell
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I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.
Matthew Desmond
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World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.
Jim Yong Kim
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As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Nelson Mandela
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The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
Dambisa Moyo
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
Iqbal Quadir
