Poverty Quotations | Page 4
Poverty Quotes from:
- Samuel Johnson
- Juvenal
- Mother Teresa
- Pope Francis
- Benjamin Franklin
- George Bernard Shaw
- Muhammad Yunus
- Oscar Wilde
- Lyndon B Johnson
- Martin Luther King Jr
- Bill Gates
- James Wolfensohn
- Kofi Annan
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Jacqueline Novogratz
- Josh Billings
- Paul Wolfowitz
- William Shakespeare
- Henry David Thoreau
- Nelson Mandela
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Ancient Quotes
Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.
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Base Quotes
New Orleans had devastation prior to the hurricane. We were warning them that the city was heading to catastrophe, but we got the hurricane instead. There is no economic base for black folks. They're supposed to wait tables for $5 an hour. And people are surprised there's poverty and rage?
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Death Quotes
Natural disasters are terrible things, but what defines us is not what happens to us, but how we react to it. When you look at the number of people who die from the kind of diseases and poverty that the Gates and Bono are fighting, the death tolls are far greater than what occurs in natural disasters or wars.
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Absorb Quotes
People who are poor enough to receive LIHEAP benefits, such as elderly widows living below the poverty line, are not in a position to absorb a big increase in home heating costs. If these households don't receive more help paying their utility bills, many of them will face excruciating choices between heating their homes, paying the rent, having enough food to last through the month, and meeting other basic needs. Serious hardship is virtually certain to ensue.
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Argument Quotes
Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.
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Band Quotes
CARE is heartened by the support of Dave Matthews Band and their fans. Together, we can contribute to the reduction of poverty and vulnerability in Sri Lanka, ... Rebuilding communities and livelihoods from scratch cannot occur in a matter of months. It will take years of hard work and commitment. In doing so, it's imperative to incorporate the wishes and protect the rights of people of all ethnicities whose lives have been turned upside down.
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Class Quotes
I loved and hated India; the pressures of class division and riches and poverty there are devastating, but love predominates. I have two families and scattered friends there, mainly in Delhi, but south also, and wish I had the stamina to tackle it again. Maybe I'll make it some day yet, but it does take stamina.
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America Quotes
I have been astonished by the reactions and apparent shame of some of the U.S. television reporters who seemed overwhelmed to discover that there actually is poverty in America, ... They made me want to grab my television and shout 'Hello, dear reporter, yes, America actually does have poor and underprivileged people as well. Hello, yes, the president might well be slow to react but at times like this, that's all that an over-burdened, out-of-touch president can be.
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Came Quotes
He was the first to want to make poverty history, and his... reforms came to pass centuries after he made the suggestions, ... And to see the event through his eyes provides, I think, an important corrective to those three strands of history that have, for one reason or another, ignored or deplored the trial of the king.
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Absurd Quotes
Here I was in my 20s, and life seemed to me so exciting and full of girls and gardens and steamships and drinks and tennis games and countries and cathedrals... I mean, it seemed absurd to be writing these drab, depressed little poems. I knew there were things like death and poverty and injustice, but they weren't everything.
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Access Quotes
Katrina and Rita should inspire us to begin a new national dialogue on poverty and its disproportionate impacts on women, especially women of color, ... Research tells us a great deal about the solutions that work such as access to training and work and family supports. We must face the persistent poverty that is growing around our nation and work together to advance policies addressing its root causes.
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Above Quotes
Our nation is facing a major challenge of uplifting 260 million people who are below poverty line and we have to give better life for many millions who are on border line of poverty or just above the poverty line. To meet the needs of one billion people we have the mission of transforming India into a developed nation .... We have identified five areas where India has a core competence on integrated action for agriculture, food processing, education and health care, reliable and quality electric power, surface transport and infrastructure for all parts of the country, information technology and other strategic sectors.
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Care Quotes
That a member of Congress who is supposed to represent one of the U.S. states hardest hit by NAFTA job loss, and whose constituents care deeply about poverty in Central America, would become a deciding vote to expand NAFTA to six more nations is unimaginable, given the damage the NAFTA model has proven to cause to U.S. working people and Mexico's poor.
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Angeles Quotes
Literacy is crucial to creating job opportunities, supporting workers and their families and eradicating poverty in our region, ... Literacy must start in homes and classrooms by giving the children of Los Angeles the best education possible to enable them to pursue their goals and become engaged citizens. I am committed to assembling the resources needed to build the skills of our workers and our children.
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Achieved Quotes
Manny Rivera represents high-quality leadership in our nation's public schools. Since his return to Rochester, Manny has focused on raising achievement standards ... Despite pervasive poverty ? Rochester ranks 11th in the nation in child poverty ? the district has achieved dramatic improvements in the number of students passing the statewide exams in the past three years.