Poverty Quotes

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together. Marc Forne Molne
Together Fight Poverty Inevitable Human Decide Ill
Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance. Marc Morial
Game Poverty Country Added Out Significance Pretend More Gives No-One Put Because Inequality Movement Anymore Katrina Play Millions
These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country. Marcy Kaptur
You Poverty Country Fall Reflect Consider Earning Adequately Adjusted Jobs More Poverty Line True Hour Line Been American Poor Boat Working Full-Time Even Among Level Millions
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. Margaret Cavendish
Friendship Poverty Country Lost Duty Despised Though Weaken Out Neither Hath Could Make Him Lord Been His Nor Pinching Banished Estate Break Loyal Necessity Bonds
The United States is a leader across a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our technological prowess is part of our greatness as a nation. Sadly, among the rich industrialized nations, we also lead by a substantial margin in the rate of poverty among children. Margaret Geller
Poverty Leader Nation Rich Broad Our States Range Rate Lead Part Sadly Also Industrialized Disciplines Scientific Greatness Prowess Nations Substantial Children Across United United States Among Margin Technological
A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home. Margaret Geller
Home Family Library Book Internet Poverty Living Unlikely Possible Significant Able Borrow Computer Take Another Access Child Afford Expense Public Might Public Library Even Level
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. Marian Wright Edelman
Better Backwards Poverty Our Sliding States Must Wealthy Leaders Demand Countries Industrialized End Child Committed While Far Far Less Less United United States
It's not racist to say we can't take in the poverty of the world. Marine Le Pen
World Poverty Say Take
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway. Mario Monicelli
Death Age Old Sickness Poverty Old Age Hunger Laugh Misery Stem Make Always Italians Anyway Themes
You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better. Mark Takano
You Experience World Better Poverty Think Changed Extreme Extreme Poverty Ways Seeing About Make Want Which Start
We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority. Mark Zuckerberg
Internet Job Poverty National Every Everyone Out Lifted New Global Know Access Priority New Job Person Get Gets Going Created Theory Who Large Connecting Even
As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty. Martha Plimpton
Life My Life Poverty Most Am Familiar Actress Profoundly
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. Martin H. Fischer
Education Great Poverty Doctors Dirt Got Off Pavement Marble Foundations Floors
As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. Martin Lewis Perl
Poverty Jews Russia Left Escape Families
Money can't buy poverty. Marty Feldman
Buy Money Poverty
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. Marvin Olasky
Tired Learning Poverty Looking Philanthropists Other Way Folks Deliberately Most Fell Concerned Reactive Efforts Ordinary Apart Should Communities Organizations Who
I've been to the Bahamas before, and it's so crass. You land in Nassau, and the whole island is replete with beauty and culture, but there's a lot of poverty. It is a largely black population; then they build these places like Atlantis and The Cove that are walled off. Matt Skiba
You Culture Black Poverty Beauty Build Before Bahamas Like Island Been Lot Off Replete Places Land Then Whole Population Largely
The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things. Matthew Desmond
Life Game People Better Thrive Poverty System Some Born Small Better Things Contribute Want Poor Things
Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. Matthew Desmond
Debate Word Poverty Exploitation Out Has-Been Been Now
I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the depth and expanse of poverty. That's really always unsettled me. Matthew Desmond
Me Democracy Poverty Rich Troubled Unsettled Matched Always Been Expanse America American Depth Really Amount
I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute. Matthew Desmond
Love Poverty Pain Promise Rust Part Also Very America Where Full Special Acute Belt Milwaukee
A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it. Matthew Desmond
Life People Cause Path Poverty Difficult Sets More Like Know Does How Condition Lot Just Different Much Really Acting
If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not for a lack of resources. It will be a lack of something else. Matthew Desmond
Will Poverty Else Our Resources Neighborhoods Cities Something Something Else Along Go Continue Lack Commonplace Poor Tolerate Level
This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation. Matthew Desmond
Me Wealth Poverty Country Dissertation Seemed Wrong Much
I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more. Matthew Desmond
College Poverty Sense More Understand Left Deep Needed
I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a phenomenon that would allow me to draw in a lot of different players. I was like, 'Shoot, eviction does that.' Matthew Desmond
Me Book Poverty Looking Draw Would Some About Only Write Allow Device Like Sort Narrative Does Lot Shoot Different Wanted Poor Players Phenomenon
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