Quotes containing word "poverty"

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Definitions and meanings of word "poverty"

• Noun: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

Featured authors with quotes containing word "poverty"

Mother Teresa
4 quotes about poverty
Albanian Leader
Friday 26 August 1910 - Friday 5 September 1997
Kathleen Blanco
3 quotes about poverty
American Politician
Tuesday 15 December 1942 - Sunday 18 August 2019
H. Rap Brown
3 quotes about poverty
American Activist
Born Monday 4 October 1943
Lyndon B. Johnson
3 quotes about poverty
American President, Vice President
Thursday 27 August 1908 - Monday 22 January 1973
Mitt Romney
3 quotes about poverty
American Politician, Businessman
Born Wednesday 12 March 1947
Harry Browne
2 quotes about poverty
American Writer, Politician
Saturday 17 June 1933 - Wednesday 1 March 2006
Rick Santorum
3 quotes about poverty
American Author, Politician
Born Saturday 10 May 1958
Marcy Kaptur
2 quotes about poverty
American Politician
Born Monday 17 June 1946
Grace Abbott
one quote about poverty
American Activist
Sunday 17 November 1878 - Monday 19 June 1939
J. K. Rowling
one quote about poverty
English Novelist, Author
Born Saturday 31 July 1965
Paul Ryan
2 quotes about poverty
American Politician, Vice President
Born Thursday 29 January 1970
Samuel Johnson
3 quotes about poverty
English Critic, Poet, Author, Editor
Wednesday 18 September 1709 - Monday 13 December 1784

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Teresa

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We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

Thomas R. Kelly

Words: mistaken, nature, poverty, thought, economic, soul, deprivation, gods, recreating, loving, peace
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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Grace Abbott

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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

J. K. Rowling

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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Harry Browne

Words: governments, war, poverty, transformed, misfortune, career, choice
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Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Words: poverty, must, bar, learning, offer, escape
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Michel de Montaigne

Words: poverty, goods, easily, cured, soul, impossible
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At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

Bernie Sanders

Words: current, hour, federal, minimum, wage, become, poverty, worker, one, child, lives, below, official, line
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

John Berger

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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Words: Nigeria, business, poverty, human, material, resources, strive, eradicate, country
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Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

Kathleen Blanco

Words: poverty, problem, cuts, across, any, line, name, age, race, social, geographic, religious, black, white, rich, poor, all, touched
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

H. Rap Brown

Words: poverty, program, designed, eliminate
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There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Andrew Cuomo

Words: never, war, poverty, maybe, skirmish
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Haile Gebrselassie

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These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.

Marcy Kaptur

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Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

Paul Ryan

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Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

Kathleen Blanco

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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

Words: simplify, life, laws, universe, will, simpler, solitude, poverty, weakness
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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

Salvatore Quasimodo

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