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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit
[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.
Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.
I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.
You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.
While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.
There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.
I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.
Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.
Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair.
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.
Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.
They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!
Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.
The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine.
Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.
We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.
Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
