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Poverty  Quotes
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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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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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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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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Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.

—Auliq Ice

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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

—Chaka Fattah

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I don’t like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn’t haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

—Alex Garland

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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred...

—Aristophanes

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You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can’t admire him because of them.

—Elizabeth Harrower

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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

—Hunter S.

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When giving money to the amputated, you must put it directly into their pockets.

—Greg Campbell

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Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place...

—Hannah Kent

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The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs. This was March, but the weather had been horribly...

—George Orwell

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Sleep doesn’t come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

—Craig Stone

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To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness.

—David McCullough

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I pray for the day when working men and women are able to earn a fair share of the wealth they produce in a capitalist system, a day when all Americans are able to enjoy...

—Jerry Ash

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Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

—Joe Queenan

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MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for...

—MT

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Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to...

—Og Mandino

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The greatest sorrow in the life of a peasant is that his donkey is lost. And the greatest happiness is that he finds it back.

—Khalid Farooq

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A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more...

—Peter Joseph

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For I was hungry, while you had all you needed. I was thirsty, but you drank bottled water. I was a stranger, and you wanted me deported. I needed clothes, but you needed more clothes....

—Richard Stearns

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One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

—Nicholas D.

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I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water;...

—Victor Hugo

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As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups – adults who had never, since they left...

—Robert A. Caro

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He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This steady stream of shocks and realizations leaves so many boys raised...

—Ron Suskind

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Papa, why are you selling our goats? I like these goats.””A week ago the price was five hundred, now it’s four hundred. I’m sorry, but we can’t wait for it go any lower.”Mankhalala and the...

—William Kamkwamba

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As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

—Vandana Shiva

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I’ve seen poverty & I can assure you that it’s ‘too dark’ (Black) in colour.

—Cedric Namedi

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The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

—Andrew Miller

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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

—Charles Bukowski

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Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside.

—Carla H. Krueger

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The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love.

—Dillon Burroughs

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I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with...

—Charlotte Eriksson

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Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

—Eric Greitens

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Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them,...

—Chimamanda Ngozi

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I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

—Gary Shteyngart

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How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

—Gautama Buddha

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When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don’t need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest. If our...

—Jean Vanier

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I’ve always thought that was the lamest argument—that we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of us to be grateful. All that really means is that someone has to...

—Josephine Angelini

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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

—Marian Edelman

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History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

—Jeffrey D.

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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

—John Steinbeck

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There’s poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without children, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without God, is...

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Close your eyes, Maxon.”What?””Close your eyes.Somewhere in this palace, there is a woman who will be your wife. This girl? imagine that she depends on you. She needs you to cherish her and make her...

—Kiera Cass

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People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

—Mohnish Pabrai

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Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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