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Poverty  Quotes
A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation...

—Benedict XVI

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Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can’t address such...

—Ban Ki-Moon

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Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more needful—to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity...

—David duChemin

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Life’s mystery continued to trouble meA question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult?

—Suman Pokhrel

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If this comedy thing doesn’t work out, I’ve always got poverty to fall back on.

—Trevor Noah

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Honesty is not a virtue, it is a luxury. Most, who struggle to put bread on the table, face this question every day. And hunger wins this game almost every time, beta (son).

—Prashant Chopra

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The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?

—Anthony Liccione

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Success, just like poverty is a state of mind. You can become successful instantly with a simple decision and commitment. Long lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset...

—Bryant McGill

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In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had – a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they’d sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn’t...

—Barbara Kingsolver

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The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it.

—Auliq Ice

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Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.

—Enock Maregesi

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From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art – a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

—Criss Jami

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That’s the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores–when we can ride past them at Fayette and Monroe, car doors locked, our...

—David Simon

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The Poverty Tour provided the opportunity to meet many people who had been living paycheck to paycheck even before the economic downturn. To so quickly slide from the great middle into the underworld of the...

—Cornel West

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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

—Immanuel Kant

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I’m a poor worker. The quality of work I do is excellent, but I make no money.

—Jarod Kintz

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There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

—John Green

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Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the citizens of this country, one of the richest on earth, get poorer each...

—James Morcan

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The homeless dudes on Alameda all have legs any runway model would kill for, and sometimes I think of giving them money, but— I don’t know, I’ve got bills to not pay, and drinks to...

—Kris Kidd

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I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

—Muhammad Yunus

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good news.” They want to see the good news in action. The church doesn’t hold revival meetings and call it a day — we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, dig wells, and staff medical...

—Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

—Marcus Annaeus

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We aren’t really called to save the world, not even to save one person; Jesus does that. We are just called to love with abandon. We are called to enter into our neighbors’ sufferings and...

—Katie J.

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Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty; richness with unhappiness is not a real richness!

—Mehmet Murat

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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

—Richard Wright

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What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in severe economic competition, without political rights, and with ludicrously inadequate common-school facilities? What can it expect...

—W.E.B. Du

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There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and...

—Tupac Shakur

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Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

—William Easterly

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It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world’s Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and...

—Ronald J.

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we might have to eat the dog” poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald’s was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and...

—Unknown Author

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Does affirmative action place minority students in colleges where they’re likely to fail while depriving other applicants of the chance to attend the most challenging schools where they are capable of succeeding? Does rent control...

—William Voegeli

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The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The...

—Basil the

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If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

—Ali ibn Abi Talib

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And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke’s palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money,...

—Angela Carter

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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

—Coco Chanel

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It is good,” he thought “to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long...

—Hermann Hesse

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The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

—Frances Moore

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The fastest and cheapest way to eradicate poverty is not by giving food but by giving hope, love, and education.

—Debasish Mridha

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Being broke didn’t seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.(“Don’t Wait Up For Me Tonight”)

—Cornell Woolrich

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Blobfish, the guy who snapped a hamsters neck, myself, the homeless guy who has never thrown a punch (but has killed a fox) and Dickface, the man obsessed with trees and touching himself in public,...

—Craig Stone

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I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn’t even touch a package of them now.

—Jeremy Camp

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As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

—James Lee Burke

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Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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The beauty of learning is that it liberates us from poverty.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product...

—Muhammad Yunus

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It is much better to live in poverty and graduate to the middle class, than it is to live as a king and be demoted to the middle class.

—Mustafa Said

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American humorist Kin Hubbard said , “It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be”. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very...

—Kurt Vonnegut

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So go and enjoy, already.” My father always said I was my mother’s son and I was proud of that. On her good days, she was a good and noble thing to be a part...

—John William Tuohy

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There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do...

—Nelson Mandela

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Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

—Peter Singer

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