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Poverty  Quotes
When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think...

—Ratan Tata

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It is true that almost everyone in the foothills farmed and hunted, so there were no breadlines, no men holding signs that begged for work and food, no children going door to door, as they...

—Rick Bragg

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The fact is if a hurricane hit any urban city, you would have seen the same thing, … Poverty is right beneath the surface.

—Pedro Noguera

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Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

—Richard J.

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You have the ultimate power to overcome poverty; poverty does not have the right to dictate how you should struggle.

—Wayne Chirisa

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I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn’t need policing; they needed help,...

—Veronica Roth

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When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.

—Auliq Ice

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Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

—Antiphanes

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They” hate us because they feel–and “they” are not wrong–that it is within our power to do so much more, and that we practice a kind of passive-aggressive violence on the Third World. We do...

—Bill Maher

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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

—Brennan Manning

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Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.

—David Cameron

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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! – I have as much soul as you, – and full as much heart! And if...

—Charlotte Brontë

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When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged her to eat; it gave seasoning to poor food that no...

—Chelsea Quinn

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Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in His Service, and so doing we shall please Him.

—Francis de

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People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he...

—George Orwell

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Without the sleeping bag I’m just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I’m nobody up early, sitting under a tree: a slight, but important difference in how...

—Craig Stone

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The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic...

—John Perkins

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Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

—Jerry Ash

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Money can’t buy poverty.

—Marty Feldman

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Light’s all very well, brothers, but it’s not easy to live with.

—Mikhail Zoshchenko

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Poverty is unnecessary.

—Muhammad Yunus

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Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog...

—Leslie Jamison

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You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow!...

—Major Thomas

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I’d rather be poor to my bones than be rich with your money, that is like a trigger, ready to be pulled in my face.

—Nema Al-Araby

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Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup.

—Stanley Victor

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Amidst the crowd, tumbling like a stone, although lying on the roads, I’m but a life.

—Waheed Ibne

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True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the “rejects of life,” to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving...

—Paulo Freire

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Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for...

—Ron Sider

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Don’t worry about the water,” said a man with a nervous grin. “This is hardwood, it won’t ruin. You’ll have this chair into your old years. How much do you have? I’ll take anything. My...

—William Kamkwamba

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Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

—Vivian Amis

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POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor.

—Bryant McGill

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We as Democrats have not been very interested in poverty or issues relating to the inner city as much as we should have. Think about the last presidential campaign: It’s pretty hard to focus a...

—Barack Obama

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Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

—Carla H. Krueger

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You’d think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him,” said Miss Hillyard. “It didn’t pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour...

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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I love living in the ghetto!” #PoorMindSet

—Habeeb Akande

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It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people’s lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

—Helen Prejean

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We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) “certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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One would never defeat one’s circumstances by working and saving one’s pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and, besides, the social treatment accorded even the most successful Negroes proved that one...

—James Baldwin

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You can’t change generational poverty by sitting on your ass. Let’s get to work!

—Damen Lopez

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Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon’t be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will share your love and your life

—Jean Vanier

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I start to think, ‘It’s awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.’ But that’s instantly swept away by another thought: ‘I’m so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me...

—Margaret Peterson

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Hurricane Katrina ripped the mask off of the poverty and festering racism and what I call the ‘new slavery,’ the pipeline to prison so many youth experience. Yet our national attention span is abysmally short....

—Marian Edelman

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The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It’s been and is an amazing ride for the rich.

—Jeffrey D.

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Most people in the Great Britain of (Adam) Smith’s day lived in what most of us would regard as poverty. Hundreds of thousands were willing to risk the possibility of death in transit and years...

—Jerry Z.

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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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a verdade é ainda mais triste, Baba: não somos transparentes por não comer… nós somos transparentes porque somos pobres.

—Ondjaki

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When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.

—Marquita Burke-DeJesus

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LovePoverty
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Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.

—Kenneth Minogue

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