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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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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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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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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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Being an altruist I have an urge in mylife to help poor’s but im not Bill Gates

—Bilal Bashir

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I’m very pro-American – my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

—Camille Paglia

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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

—Charles Darwin

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All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then...

—David Baldacci

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Wape watoto wako urithi wa kutosha ili waweze kufanya kitu, lakini si urithi wa kutosha ili wasiweze kufanya kitu. Wape watoto uhuru wanaostahili kupata, uhuru wa mahesabu, lakini si uhuru wa kila kitu.

—Enock Maregesi

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People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they’re too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.

—Garret Keizer

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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

—George Gissing

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For if in careless summer daysIn groves of Ashtaroth we whored,Repentant now, when winds blow cold,We kneel before our rightful lord;The lord of all, the money-god,Who rules us blood and hand and brain,Who gives the...

—George Orwell

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Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that....

—George Saunders

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I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

—Emmanuel Jal

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I want poverty to end in tomorrow’s Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

—Malala Yousafzai

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We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world; when our stomachs are full of delicious food; the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

—Mother Teresa

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People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their...

—Muhammad Yunus

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No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to a place, to an occupation, and to conformity with the will...

—John Stuart Mill

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Don’t ever feel sad about who you are. Don’t wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you’re poor. Look! Everybody’s poor, i discovered it when i realized...

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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We’re not stupid! We’re just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

—Orhan Pamuk

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Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

—Mehmet Murat

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The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary – grey, cracked and old,but more importantly, trodden upon.

—Martin Hopkins

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Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

—Russell Baker

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It is a common condition of being poor…you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute...

—Rick Bragg

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

—Samuel Johnson

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Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

—Ronald J.

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Do not work hard for the love of money; but work hard to enrich the life you love.

—Wayne Chirisa

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If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you...

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According to the 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 25.8 percent of [New Orleans] population lives below the poverty line… This is more than twice the national average, but is close tot he percentages...

—Billy Sothern

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If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.

—Bryant McGill

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You can’t put money meant for the right course of action in the hands of criminals, rogues and thieves and expect to see positive changes or results.

—Bamigboye Olurotimi

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

—Anatole France

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They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn’t like the smell of the poor.

—Chris Hedges

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The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially

—Georg Wilhelm

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I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

—George Eliot

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There are many forms of poverty: economic poverty, physical poverty, emotional poverty, mental poverty, and spiritual poverty. As long as we relate primarily to each other’s wealth, health, stability, intelligence, and soul strength, we cannot...

—Henri J.M.

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Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel...

—George Orwell

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Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it’s not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.

—Craig Stone

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la pauvreté est comme un mal qu’on endort en soi et qui ne donne pas trop de douleur, à condition de ne pas trop bouger. On s’y habitue, on finit par ne plus y prendre...

—Gabrielle Roy

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Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians. This is a class war. We have to stir up the American people,...

—Jerry Ash

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No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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The time has come to end divisions between peoples. The time has come to end the cycle of poverty, hopelessness and despair. The time has come when all those affected by this conflict must become...

—Mikhail Saakashvili

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Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

—Muhammad Yunus

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That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into...

—Khaled Hosseini

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Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient, the greatest...

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great educator. Mostly it teaches, I am afraid, cynicism. But not...

—Neil Postman

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Let’s think of that moment when a woman washed the feet of Jesus with the nard, so expensive: it is a religious moment, a moment of gratitude, a moment of love. And he [Judas] stands...

—Pope Francis

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