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Poverty Quotes

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Government War Poverty Career Choice

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

Thinking Understanding Poverty Lost

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

James Wolfensohn

Wish Poverty You Away Overnight

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Home War Poverty Will Us Only

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Ahmed Ben Bella

Good Past Poverty Bad Manifest Now

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Live Poverty More Neighborhoods Than

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.

James Roosevelt

Poverty Security Tax Over Years Out

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

Jose Angel Gurria

Live Poverty You Country Forget

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Money Poverty Self-Reliance Breeds

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

John Edgar Wideman

Poverty Too Much Difficulties Us Who

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

Business Time World Poverty Bank

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

Racism Corruption Problem Poverty

The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

Women Story Impact Poverty Injustice

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Andrew Mitchell

People Law Conflict Poverty First

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

January Poverty President Office OK

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

Douglas Alexander

Morning Think End Poverty Mission

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

God Truth Alone Enough Poverty Know

I realize that I'm in the top one percent of the world. I've traveled a lot. I've seen immense poverty in the world, and I can't live with everything I've had and be comfortable with everything I have unless I do something for the rest of the world.

Andie MacDowell

Live World Rest Poverty Traveled

I just think that if we are going to call ourselves pro-life, we must also agree that starvation and poverty and disease and immigration and health care for all and war and peace and the environment are also pro-life issues.

Glennon Doyle Melton

Health Peace War Think Care Poverty

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

Poverty House Young Up Lived Level

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Slavery Poverty Rights Well Negroes

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

Society Poverty Existence Analysis

I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact.

Change Building Chance Face Poverty

Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is no deficit in human resources - it is a deficit in human will.

Coretta Scott King

Technology Science Poverty Wrong Why

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