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Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.
You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.
Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!
Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.
I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.
Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.
You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]
I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.
There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!
The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.
I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.
Graduating from high school is certainly a good idea, but it's no longer much protection against poverty.
We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.
There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.
The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.
In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.
Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.
The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.
I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.