Top 1200 Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty
As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.
We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance.
Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.
Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.
Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.
With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out.
Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?
I want to show the world that there is more to Africa than poverty, hunger, and disease.
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
When you grow up in poverty and learn how to survive it, it's something that stays with you forever.
The Tories wanted to get rid of fuel poverty targets. I stopped them.
No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps.
Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.
The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.
A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.
The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.
Comic Relief funds projects that help lift people out of poverty.
Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.
I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.
Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.
To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;
To bear with fools is mightiest might.
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.
Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!
Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.
Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.
The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
