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Poverty Quotes

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

Day Government Poverty Every Day

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

Women Men Fight Action Poverty Done

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

Car Safety Poverty You Without High

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Together People Poverty You Sugar

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

Poverty Frontier Able Cross

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

People Care Take Care Poverty Find

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.

Live Poverty You Create Want Way

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

Good Support People Safety Poverty

Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.

Muhammadu Buhari

Education Learning Grow Poverty Play

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

Good Effort World Poverty Done Mean

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

Nicholas Kristof

Age Children Die Poverty Year Like

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Life Work Love God Better Poverty

India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous pageant. I never noticed the poverty.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Sky Flying Poverty India Brilliant

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

World Rest Poverty Long Injustice

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

Marian Wright Edelman

Child End Better Poverty Backwards

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Politics Poverty Wealth Want Out

As policy makers, Congress has the power to promote public policies that economically empower single parents and drastically reduce childhood poverty.

Power Childhood Parents Poverty

We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.

Mark Zuckerberg

Job Internet Poverty Person New Job

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

Martin O'Malley

Think Poverty Party Person More

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

Culture Together People Poverty Want

The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.

Past Violence Poverty Los Angeles

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Michel de Montaigne

Soul Impossible Poverty Easily Cured

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

Beautiful Flowers Poverty Humanity

Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates.

Good Mountains Environment Poverty

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