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Poverty Quotes

Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.

Richard N. Haass

Battle Help Poverty Poor More Trade

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

World Violence Poverty Development

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

Live Faith Time Job Value Poverty

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

Poverty Create Will Try More Human

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

Nicola Sturgeon

Food Poverty Welfare Demand Banks

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

Community Effort Law Action Poverty

If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Change Generation Poverty You Know

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Health Care Poverty Insurance You

It's not racist to say we can't take in the poverty of the world.

World Poverty Say Take

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

Roberto Benigni

Parents Me Gift Poverty Village

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes.

Nicholas Kristof

Family Live Children Parents Poverty

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.

Life Mind Society Free Poverty You

How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?

God Poverty Cancer Allow How Many

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

People Rich Conquer Poverty Africa

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

Martin Lewis Perl

Poverty Escape Russia Left Jews

When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.

Rosemary Mahoney

People Poverty You Living China

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

Poverty Rural Different Found Some

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Martha Plimpton

Life I Am My Life Poverty Actress

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

Martin O'Malley

Family Time Woman Poverty Rules Her

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Greed Poverty Corporate Only Union

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

Lewis Thompson Preston

Poverty Bank Would Objective

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

Michelle Bachelet

Growth Justice Democracy Poverty Go

I point out the Democratic party won two world wars and beat the depression, cut out the poverty by two thirds, and was responsible for the same sustained prosperity that we've had in the United States. What the hell do we have to apologize for?

Depression World Hell Poverty Party

At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.

People Poverty Train Adapt Living

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