As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
TodayCommunityLiePovertyNeed
Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!
Caitlin Moran
MoneyWorldPovertyClothesOur
My one wish for humanity is that everyone can become the person they were meant to be - what are the barriers to that? Often it's crushing poverty or certain circumstances.
Tom Morello
WishPovertyHumanityPersonBecome
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping birth rate.
Rebecca Traister
MarriageGunViolencePovertyBirth
We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.
Noreena Hertz
LiveWorldPovertyEnjoyOthersMay
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
PovertyEscapeWriteI Write
Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.
Tom Vilsack
LivePovertyYearKnowMoreEarn
It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change.
Paul Polman
ChangeBusinessWorldStrongPoverty
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
Nicolas Sarkozy
CompetitionWarPovertyWantUnfair
I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
Barbara Ehrenreich
JusticeTalkingPovertyLivingDead
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
Roger Moore
I AmViolencePovertyNeverSeems
Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.
Nicholas Kristof
ChoicesBelievePovertyBadLiberals
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa
HomelessStartThinkPovertyKind
What you don't want to do - if you're concerned about poverty, if you're concerned about providing opportunity - you don't want to rip the bottom rung of the ladder of opportunity away from people.
Ron Johnson
OpportunityPeoplePovertyYouWant
I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
LifeI AmMy LifePovertyBackGo
I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
Muhammad Yunus
BusinessPovertyLiftBankOutTiny
Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Rush Limbaugh
PovertyCrimeRootCause
Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.
Marc Morial
GamePovertyInequalityCountryPlay
Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.
Morena Baccarin
PoliticalCorruptionAmericaPoverty
Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even more striking is that Social Security is the only source of retirement income for almost a quarter of elderly beneficiaries.
Mike Quigley
LiveRetirementPovertySecurity
These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.
Marcy Kaptur
BoatPovertyYouFallCountryTrue
People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
Lynn Johnston
PeoplePovertyGamesPoorNeverOut
So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.
Mike Huckabee
MePovertyYouImportantWhyReal
After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.
Lawrence Bender
TruthWaterPeopleMePovertyMore
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Poverty