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Poverty Quotes

For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.

Life Live Thought My Life Poverty

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

Matthew Desmond

Think Poverty You Housing Lack

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Die Guilt Poverty Guilty Race Error

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Time Poverty Coincidence More Air

I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.

Life Child Believe Someone Poverty

I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a phenomenon that would allow me to draw in a lot of different players. I was like, 'Shoot, eviction does that.'

Matthew Desmond

Me Looking Book Poverty Poor Write

I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. It's a rough city to grow up in, and it's a modern-day ghost town.

City Grow Poverty Damn Grow Up Up

The factory work that lifted millions out of poverty in places like China and Vietnam probably did cost some workers in North Carolina and Wallonia their jobs.

Arancha Gonzalez

Work Poverty Places Out Cost China

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Truth Time Progress Humility Poverty

I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

Matthew Desmond

Myself Writing Tradition Poverty See

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Insecurity Gun Poverty Crime Knife

We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

War Poverty Resources Precious Must

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Talent Genius Poverty Could Having

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

Business People Start Poverty Many

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

Poverty Famine Consequence

A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society.

William T. Vollmann

Money People Society Poverty You

I grew up in poverty, so I thought, 'I want to be a billionaire one day. I'll go and work for Donald Trump. I'll go try to be on 'The Apprentice' and be successful.' But 15 years later, I never would imagine that he, as the president of the United States, would call me a low life.

Omarosa Manigault Newman

Life Work Day Me Thought Poverty

The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.

World Poverty Differences Bank Needs

Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.

People Looking Poverty Magic You

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

Winnie Byanyima

Kindness People Poverty You Lift

City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.

Octavia Spencer

Education City Me Poverty Year Way

Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.

Confidence Poverty Out Climbing

Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.

School Parent Poverty Differences

Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.

Work Strong Poverty Duty Hunger

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