I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
Annie Lennox
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Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.
Matthew Desmond
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If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.
Dudley North
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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
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My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
Park Geun-hye
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Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and ill health in the world.
Angus Deaton
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Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
David Byrne
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Poverty is rooted in injustice.
Winnie Byanyima
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Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Orison Swett Marden
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Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.
Ann Cotton
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When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.
Charles Stanley
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Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.
Pranab Mukherjee
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There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries.
Mahathir Mohamad
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Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.
Michael Franti
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How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
Birch Bayh
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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
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It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That's how we leave no one behind.
Amy Klobuchar
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Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
Bill Gates
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To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
Peter Singer
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
Karin Slaughter
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As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.
Steve Israel
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
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