Poverty Quotations | Page 3
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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Against Quotes
We feel that these should not be tit-for-tat negotiations, this is something everyone should understand. Brazil and others are prepared to make some movement of our own and do everything that is necessary to move forward. This is an important step in the fight against poverty and I believe it is something that we must commit fully to achieving.
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Basically Quotes
Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? 'Love thy neighbor.' Didn't I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.
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Development Quotes
poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.
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Exposed Quotes
There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.