Top 1200 Reducing Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

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

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.

The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.

So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue.

By repealing the Child Poverty Act, which forced governments to take real action to tackle child poverty, this government brings a proud chapter of British history to an undignified end. In future the government will measure child poverty not by looking at whether they have any money, but by looking at their so-called 'life chances.'

The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts serving poor children to compensate for issues related to poverty. Since the enactment of NCLB, the focus on mitigating poverty has been replaced by a focus on accountability as measured by test scores.

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

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.

A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

We measure poverty by what I believe is a very, very crude concept. We actually measure poverty by trying to get some kind of an estimate of the minimum expenditures on food that are required to maintain health, multiplying that number by three, and saying that's the level of poverty. And it's a very crude, inaccurate arrangement.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.