Poverty Quotes - Page 28

• Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Degradation

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• Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

  Frederick Douglass

  Ignorance, People, Evil

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.214, Chicago Review Press

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• The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Political, Trying, Unrest

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• Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.

  Mark Skousen

  War, Expression, Ideas

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• There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

  Nelson Mandela

  True Friend, Littles, Said

  Nelson Mandela (2008). “Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.

  Sean Wilentz

  Caught, Parasites, Worthy

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• You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Waiting, May, Spirit

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• Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

  Julius Nyerere

  People, Pennies, Tanzania

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• Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.

  Bernie Sanders

  Childhood, United States, Salary

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• [B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Needs, Satisfied, Materials

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• We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

  James Dickey

  Suicide, Artist, Frustration

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• Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.

  Josh Bernstein

  Rich, Poor, Tyranny

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• Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Men, Eight

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• Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Doubt, Doe

  Carter, Jimmy (1979). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978”, p.836, Best Books on

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• True poverty does not come from God.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Doe, Yiddish

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• It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

  Seneca the Younger

  Humble, Men, Praise

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• Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Humanity, Honour

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• The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration.

  Judith Herrin

  Christian, Teaching, Church

  "The Formation of Christendom". Book by Judith Herrin, 1987.

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• Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It is the means for conquering poverty at the lowest rung of society, the basis on which children and the elderly are cared for, the foundation for the cultivation of arts and learning. Crush an economy and you crush civilization.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Crush, Art, Children

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• One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Girl, Fighting, Labor Force

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• These guys [liberals] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles. For them the failure of $5 trillion to eradicate poverty simply means that we haven't spent enough money. Ditto with education. The solution is always more money. No amount of empirical evidence will shake their socialist theology.

  David Limbaugh

  Mean, Guy, Tire

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• Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

  Nelson Mandela

  Meaningful, Suffering, Dignity

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.

  David Boaz

  Girl, Jobs, Children

  David Boaz (1997). “Libertarianism: A Primer”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.

  Mark Levin

  Men, Riches, Wealth

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.

  Raymond C. Hoiles

  Running, Long, Tools

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