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Poverty Quotes

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Community Best Charity Poverty Carry

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

Women Fight World Poverty See I See

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

Alberto Fujimori

Poverty Year Will Economy Improve

Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.

Environmental Driving Poverty Risk

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

Poverty You Years See Last Been

The government of Macau, of China, has been empirical and pragmatic and has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, a feat unequaled in the history of civilization in any country.

History Government People Poverty

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Theodore Parker

Society Poverty Standard Advances

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Rose Poverty Prosperity Follow Own

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Poverty Understand Even Means Shows

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

Growing Up Frustration Poverty Ghetto

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

Life People Small America Poverty

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Great Evil Poverty Show Represent

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

Power Responsibility Conflict Poverty

Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

Day Poverty Rise One Day Top Star

King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitation workers who were overwhelmingly African-American. They earned poverty wages, endured degrading working conditions, and faced brutal beatings when they tried to organize.

Struggle King Poverty Moral Workers

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Grow Poverty You Grow Up Desperation

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Nicky Oppenheimer

History Key Diamonds Poverty Make

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

Barbara Mikulski

Best Job Thought Enough Poverty Out

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Robert D. Kaplan

Poverty Terrorism Development Causes

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

Life Live Solitude Poverty You Go

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Man Rich Poverty Wealth Wishes Poor

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

Work Drive Poverty Back Security

Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a child is read to or hugged.

Nicholas Kristof

Best Child Remember Poverty Income

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Change Poverty Map Maps Nations

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