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Poverty Quotes

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Jean de la Bruyere

Good Father Mother Poverty Crime

I was ashamed of it, of the poverty I came from.

Poverty Ashamed I Came Came

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

John C. Calhoun

Men Poverty Country Unknown Will

Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.

James Wolfensohn

People Drive Poverty Create Against

I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.

Jonas Gahr Store

Life Growth Children Poverty Real

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Poverty Tragedy Poor Real

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome K. Jerome

Men Man World Enough Poverty Easy

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Money Action Poverty Important Lever

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

People Poverty Poor Poor People Must

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Eduardo Galeano

People World Poverty Result Abyss

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

Jeremiah Wright

Live People World Poverty Living

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Poverty Envy Golden Mean Palace

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

Life Poverty Go Want Living Hard

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

Retirement Poverty Enjoy Security

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

Progress Racism War Think Poverty

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Charity Poverty Wrong Punishment

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

Learn Solution Poverty Magic You

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

People Dinner Rich Poverty Want Why

I know a lot of people who are weak, who are in a perpetual cycle of poverty and being locked up. There are guys from my neighborhood who are in jail or who are dead. It does take a certain strength to know your environment and say, 'I can grow beyond it.'

Strength People Grow Poverty I Can

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

God Poverty Reveal Hold Us Gospel

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

Education Poverty Lift Out Careers

Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.

Retirement Poverty Security Count

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Evil Believe Poverty Long I Believe

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

Poverty Living Senior Citizens Senior

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