Poverty Quotes - Page 30

• India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

  Manmohan Singh

  Democracy, India, Extremes

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

  Manmohan Singh

  Meaningful, Believe, India

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• The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.

  Manmohan Singh

  Mean, Creativity, Ignorance

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• We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.

  Frederick Busch

  Beautiful, Sitting Still, Worry

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Average, Three

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in places - Washington, D.C., feeding the homeless, the hurting, going to broken boys and girls. So culturally I understood all different aspects of life - from extremely wealthy to extreme poverty, socioeconomic differences, ethnic differences.

  Paula White

  Girl, Hurt, Boys

  Source: culteducation.com

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• Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

  Hillary Clinton

  Support, Minimum Wage, Raises

  Source: time.com

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• It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Latin, America

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Class, People, Growing

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• There are millions more people living in poverty today than the day that Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton at his side, stepped into the oval office.

  Mike Pence

  People, Office, Today

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

  Tim Kaine

  People, Dignity, Social

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Sides, Desperation, South

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Police, Kabul, Losing

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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• African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Cities, African American

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.cbsnews.com. October 10, 2016.

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• In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy.

  Van Jones

  Fighting, America, People

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting people work their way out of poverty without undermining community health, we have a moral obligation to do so.

  Van Jones

  Fighting, Blue, People

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

  John Calipari

  Mean, Knows

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Minimum Wage, Want

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I know she [Hillary Clinton] comes out of a legacy with her husband in which the Democratic Party did more, it seems to me, to subjugate blacks to the dynamics of oppression, poverty. The mass incarceration state.

  Henry Giroux

  Husband, Party, Legacy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in a future that portends zero opportunities and zero hopes. This is a generation that has become the new register for disposability, redundancy, and new levels of surveillance and control.

  Henry Giroux

  Jobs, Zero, Real

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels of economic inequality, the suppression of dissent and the permanent war state.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Economic Inequality, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing huge tax benefits to the ultrarich and major corporations, and all the while draining public coffers, increasing the scale of human poverty and misery, and eliminating all viable public spheres - whether they be the social state, public schools, public transportation or any other aspect of a formative culture that addresses the needs of the common good.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism.

  Henry Giroux

  Punishment, Racism, Crow

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is result of capitalism, a system based on prioritizing profits not human need where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a capitalist elite.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, Technology, Hands

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and the Democrats. They were fought for. And in the 1960s, it was the similar. You had incredible movements against Jim Crow, poverty and the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, Crow, Vietnam

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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