Top 1200 World Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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 Since the enactment of NCLB, the focus on mitigating poverty has been replaced by a focus on accountability as measured by test scores.

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

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

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

We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is the rich who are making the world poorer. Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.

Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity. It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.

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

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

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

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.

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

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

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

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

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.

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

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

It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

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

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.

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

At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information, poverty-stricken households will never catch up to households above the poverty line - throwing the African-American community deeper into the stone ages.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

Poverty should be one of the top concerns for any elected leader. It has a negative effect on almost everything we as society entrust our government to do, but it seems that those in the Republican Party find it is more politically viable to fight a war on the people in poverty than it is to fight a war to end poverty in this country.

Giving every girl in the world the chance of a healthy, educated, and economically independent life is essential if we are to end poverty around the world.

The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty, war, disease and famine. But I also realized that this state of affairs wasn't necessarily a given, and that we have it in our power to make a difference, to make the world a better place for all. We have that choice. One thing's for sure, though - if we do nothing, it will be a given.

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

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace.

The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.

Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world. They just don't get it. They see poverty, inequality, fairness, as all about income. For the past 12 years, they have relied on tax credits to solve this. But tax credits do not solve poverty: they mask it.

I'd worked at the World Bank briefly as an undergrad and studied poverty levels around the world - particularly those earning less than $1.25 a day.

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.

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

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!

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

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

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

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

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

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.

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

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

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.

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

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.