Quotes about poverty
poverty needs partnership
I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty. Anne M. Mulcahy
poverty firsts family-first
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing. Albert Camus
poverty pounds week
I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week. Annie Lennox
poverty wealth rich
Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth. Cullen Hightower
poverty poet poor
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. E. M. Forster
poverty shame worst
The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it. Dolly Parton
poverty virtue teach
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself. Diogenes
poverty ifs saved
If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution. Aneurin Bevan
poverty lines american-poverty
I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31. Dustin Hoffman
poverty disaster
African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent. Donald Trump
poverty rich studying thinking
No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.
poverty-and-the-poor whose wishes
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
poverty hours week
Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty. Bernie Sanders
poverty nowhere-to-go nowhere-to-go-but-up
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. Kirk Douglas
poverty unnecessary finance
Poverty is unnecessary. Muhammad Yunus
poverty resources nothing-new
There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it. Martin Luther King, Jr.
poverty income prove
I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
poverty circumstances
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. Pam Grier
poverty dread
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty. Publilius Syrus
poverty entrepreneurship poor
Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship. Pierre Omidyar
poverty true-freedom persist
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom. Nelson Mandela
poverty honest never-forget
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
poverty program
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty. H. Rap Brown
poverty results wit
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. Jean de la Bruyere
poverty disgrace inconvenient
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient. Milton Berle
poverty way measuring
There is no good way of measuring poverty. Milton Friedman
poverty remember moments
there are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ... Nancy Mitford
poverty way kind
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being. Oprah Winfrey
poverty poor method
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise. Oliver Goldsmith
poverty sin circumstances
Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed. Katie Davis
poverty wealth crime
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. Mark Twain
poverty dignity persons
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied. Hubert H. Humphrey
poverty avarice-greed ends
For avarice begins where poverty ends. Honore de Balzac