Poverty Quotes - Page 32

• This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Levels, Amputation, Etc

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• Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

  John Gummer

  Rural Areas, Quaint, Areas

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• There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

  Tony Blair

  War, Tyrants, Justice

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By contrast, Labour says, we are also incapable of doing anything about poverty, but would dearly love to do something. If we knew what.

  Simon Hoggart

  Lines, Firsts, Contrast

  "Milburn inflamed by compassion gone mad" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2002.

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• Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children.

  Matt Damon

  Children, Issues, Perfect

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• There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color...We must fight back.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Children, Believe, Fighting

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• We`re not going to let the United States continue to have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the industrialized world in - at a time when we`re seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires.

  Bernie Sanders

  Childhood, United States, World

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• I hope we are able to shift debate over to the Middle East and change this debate to how we help the people in their home countries rather than believing we can be their relief valve for the poverty and the grief that`s in the world by bringing people here.

  Steve King

  Country, Grief, Believe

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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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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  You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

  Milton Friedman

  Eye, Beholder, Cures

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

  Dat Phan

  Struggle, Trying, Abundance

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• The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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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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• We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Jobs, Children, Gun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

  Shane Claiborne

  Urban, Appalachia, Extremes

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• Whatever your vocation is, you are destined to reign in life because Jesus is Lord of your life. When you reign in life, you reign over sin, you reign over the powers of darkness, and you reign over depression, over poverty, over every curse, and over every sickness and disease. You REIGN over the devil and all his devices!

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Darkness, Devil

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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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• Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Girl, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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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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• We fail to see the gospel as the solution to our greatest problem-our guilt, condemnation, and alienation from God. Beyond that, we fail to see it as the basis of our day-to-day acceptance with Him. As a result, many believers live in spiritual poverty.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Guilt

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• Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

  Robert Fisk

  Country, Justice, Democracy

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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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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