Poorest Quotes - Page 9

• We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

  Boris Johnson

  Breaking Down, Break, Barriers

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I can go on and on. In the Appalachians. I fed the poorest part of this nation for years coming up at Christmas.

  Paula White

  Years, Goes On, Feds

  Source: culteducation.com

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• Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Technology, Phones, Missing

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• Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere. The earthquake and the hurricanes, it has devastated Haiti. Bill Clinton and I have been involved in trying to help Haiti for many years.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Years, Earthquakes

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers at the end of the street, and your life's in misery, and you're afraid of your kids going out the door. I mean, the job of progressive politicians is to do something about that.

  Tony Blair

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Personality, World

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.170

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• A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wine, Beer, Bread

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “The education of a Christian prince”, Hippocrene Books

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• As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Nat Hentoff

  People, Suffering, Administration

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

  Marina Abramovic

  Country, Village, India

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major target of US intervention, probably ranks third poorest.

  Noam Chomsky

  Target, Haiti, Guatemala

  Source: www.madre.org

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• My development parameter is very simple. It is about how the poorest of the poor can benefit from development.

  Narendra Modi

  Simple, Development, Benefits

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that because there was no money to buy on behalf of the poorest, even the existing tools.

  Bill Gates

  Goal, Needs, Tools

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Country, Differences, World

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think that economics explains Trump. The US is doing relatively well, the economy has significantly recovered since 2008, unemployment rates are low. I would say rather that his appeal to the working class was cultural: "I'll bring back the kinds of jobs your fathers had," and, by implication, the whiter, simpler post-war world when America had no real economic competition.

  Anne Applebaum

  Jobs, Mistake, Father

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.

  Mary Robinson

  Should Have, Serious Illness, Care

  Source: www.who.int

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• The Great Famine is a period of our history that we need to know in great detail in order to understand its continuing impact on us as a people. Its causes were complex. We can't apportion blame simplistically but rather [must] understand that blame has to be shared in different areas and levels of society. It was the very poorest of the poor, the small tenants and cottiers, who really suffered. Others were less affected. But most of all I welcomed the commemoration because it was a moment to look into our past and realize the courage and resilience of those who survived.

  Mary Robinson

  Past, Impact, Order

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Becoming, Poor

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  People, Twenties, Income

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• The US reasserted control over Nicaragua in 1990. Since then, the country has experienced a steep decline. It's now the second poorest country in the hemisphere.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Nicaragua, Hemisphere

  Source: www.madre.org

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• Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

  Jan Egeland

  Change, Climate, Disaster

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• I can understand how people would despise my image and my father's persona. My father's image amongst the poorest of people, those forgotten by the state, still remains a respected image. Whether we like it or not, my father was an important figure who filled a vacuum left by the state amongst the lower social classes.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Class, People

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as he got out of jail. That's a third world reaction and they understand it. Cuba played an enormous role in the liberation of Africa and the overthrow of Apartheid, sending doctors and teachers to the poorest places in the world, to Haiti, to Pakistan after the earthquake, almost everywhere. The internationalism is just astonishing. I don't think there has been anything like it in history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.

  Riane Eisler

  Wages, Done, Care

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of India's poorest? We would hear a lot about socialist appropriation and the death of democracy. Why should taking from the rich be called appropriation and taking from the poor be called development?

  Arundhati Roy

  Government, People, Democracy

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• The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense.

  John Adams

  Education, Children, Distance

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.168

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