I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.
Mathieu Kerekou
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We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Nelson Mandela
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The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
Martin H. Fischer
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Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius
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Affluence creates poverty.
Marshall McLuhan
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There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.
Martin O'Malley
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And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
Margaret Cavendish
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Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.
Link Wray
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It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed citizen.
Michel Onfray
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James Baldwin
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Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.
Leila Janah
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If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.
Michael Moore
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They were the darkest of times, the years following the crash of the stock market in 1929. Thousands of people across the United States were cast out of their Jobs, off their farms, out of their homes and apartments, and into the crushing depths of poverty.
Kathi Appelt
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When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.
Viola Davis
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My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.
Kenneth Cranham
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing
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When we were bringing 'Raisin' onto Broadway, our first stop was at Arena in D.C. Several things struck me about being in D.C.: One was the enormous poverty around the capital at that time - it was 1973, '74 - and I was stunned by people literally living in poverty, with holes in their houses and other things.
Joe Morton
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At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its attendant culture of poverty.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.
Joyce Banda
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You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.
Ivanka Trump
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It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.
Jo Cox
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If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.
Jane Fonda
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