Poverty Quotes - Page 25

• As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Dream, Growing Up, Kids

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• They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general. We realized that these are not issues only pertinent to Latin America: poverty, misery, consumerism, etc.

  Alex Abreu

  Latin, America, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've been doing music for many years and after a point what is the motivation that drives you to compose and to do stuff? I did this song for the U.N., a fighting for poverty anthem. That's when I realized that I could do a foundation. And when I started the foundation, it was basically to fight poverty and to help - that kind of stuff.

  A. R. Rahman

  Song, Motivation, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• There is no good way of measuring poverty.

  Milton Friedman

  Way, Measuring, Good Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the level of poverty is that level of income or that level of consumption below which 10 percent of the people now are.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, People, Income

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.

  Gordon Parks

  Children, Memories, Confusion

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• I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

  Gordon Parks

  Fighting, Racism, Evil

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• The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

  Daniel S. Greenberg

  Community, Ascent, Nouveau Riche

  Daniel S. Greenberg (1999). “The Politics of Pure Science”, p.288, University of Chicago Press

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• I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know?

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, Two, Good Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2015.

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• The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

  Leila Janah

  Sexy, People, Giving

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• I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.

  Werner Bischof

  Believe, Tasks, Our Lives

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• Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mind, Produce, Estates

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

  Napoleon Hill

  Spiritual, Opposites, Two

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.164, Penguin

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• Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

  Struggle, Character, Social Behavior

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• Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Block, Years, People

  "Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin America, and the History of the U.S. in the Middle East". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 17, 2011.

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• Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

  Elliott Abrams

  Republic, Bananas, Honduras

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• Every day you make a choice either to sow some of your seed or to eat it. When you exercise faith and sow, you release God's law of prosperity. When you give in to your fear and eat your seed, or hide it, you release God's law of poverty.

  John Avanzini

  Exercise, Law, Giving

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• Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Spiritual, Devil, Disease

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• My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately, I was able to get scholarships to excellent schools, but I was one of the lucky ones. All of this is what draws me to anti-poverty organizations like Oxfam.

  Joy Bryant

  School, Grandmother, Organization

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• What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. People lost everything - family, friends. The rich culture of Cambodia was nearly extinguished. They are a nation of survivors. And while poverty and infant mortality affect a disproportionate amount of the people there, those I met were hopeful for the future and doing the best they can with
  what they had.

  Joy Bryant

  Country, People, Hopeful

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

  Hugo Chavez

  Oil, People, Giving

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.

  Edward de Bono

  Country, People, Leader

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• Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

  Edward de Bono

  Compassion, People, Together

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• That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

  Adam Smith

  Respect, Greatness, Age

  Adam Smith (1869). “Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses”, p.57

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