Poverty Quotes
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.
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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.
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Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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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.
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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.
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After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).
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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.
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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.
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Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
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World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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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.
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Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
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The best route out of poverty, to avoid food bank usage, is to make sure more people get a job.
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As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
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Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.
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European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.
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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.
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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.
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If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
