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Poverty Quotes

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Poverty Wealth Admit Escape Need

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

War Problems Poverty Attention May

Unemployment, low wages, and poverty discourage family formation and erode family stability, making it less likely that individuals will marry in the first place and more likely that their marriages will dissolve.

Stephanie Coontz

Family Poverty Place Will First Low

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Sea Me Poverty Lost Gray Up

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

Work Time Work Hard Someone Poverty

I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

Progress People Poverty Skill Living

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

Steven Soderbergh

Education Poverty Country Three Talk

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Age Writing Poverty Acting Young Up

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

Retirement Generation Poverty Now

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

Frances O'Grady

Hero Man Remember Poverty First He

The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums. And that rooftop did not have any ceiling, only half a tin sheet. That was our first school.

School People Building Story Poverty

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

Culture Poverty You India Places Up

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

Dreams Support Society Poverty Born

I need to be in charge, and that comes from when I was growing up and money was always an issue. I didn't want to feel the fear of poverty again, and I suppose, in that way, I qualify as Thatcher Youth.

Fear Money Youth Growing Up Poverty

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.

Family Poverty Year Two Earn Line

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Life Survival Poverty Way Become

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

Fear Live People World Poverty More

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

Life People Impossible Poverty Way

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

People America Poverty Sometimes

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

Poverty Go Want Prosperity Class

The money from wealthy nations to confront some very real global poverty and economic issues is largely given out of guilt.

Richard Grenell

Money Guilt Poverty Real Out Global

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Live People Poverty Week Say Street

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

Nicholas Kristof

Food Problems Think Poverty Tax

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Think Poverty Person Nothing Eat

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