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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Doris Day
Gratitude
Poverty
Complaint
Riches
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
F. Sionil Jose
Remember
Political
Poverty
Moral
Economic
Never
Always
Issue
Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.
Greg Boyle
Political
Poverty
Other
Our
Border
Thousands
Torture
Abject
Deterrent
Instability
Push
Abuse
Force
Equals
Conditions
Migration
Across
Imaginable
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
Charity
Crime
Poverty
Punishment
Wrong
Cure
Capital
Capital Punishment
Fundamentally
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield
Best
Man
Poverty
Young
Nine
Out
Tossed
Ten
Uncomfortable
Overboard
Sink
Times
Happen
Young Man
Swim
Compelled
Thing
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
Jon Corzine
Family
Poverty
Rich
Earning
Out
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Fact
Lift
Does
Wage
Gets
Current
In Fact
Even
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
Change
Poverty
Nations
Wars
Map
Maps
Fought
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.
Muhammad Yunus
Life
Economic Crisis
You
Overcome
Mind
Will
Free
Poverty
Before
Society
Our
Crisis
Economic
Write
Never
Envision
Make
Fiction
Happen
Happened
Social
Them
Flaws
Social Life
Things
Need
Imagine
The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is bad enough, but coupled with spiritual poverty, it kills.
Steven Biko
Spiritual
Oppression
Problem
Poverty
Exploitation
White
Enough
Complex
Has-Been
Bad
Deliberate
More
Fact
Supremacy
Coupled
Tied
Makes
Material
Been
Up
Want
Apartheid
Much
Capitalist
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
Willie Nelson
Sad
Truth
Music
Art
Song
World
Three
Poverty
Country
Think
Out
Country Music
Most
Lot
Heartache
Times
Hard
Chords
Hard Times
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Khalil Gibran
Love
Equality
Will
Poverty
Generations
Learn
Coming
Woes
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
Ayrton Senna
Men
Poverty
Live
Everyone
Air
Must
Wealthy
Give
Island
Least
Same
Breathe
Basic
Chance
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
Bono
Generation
Poverty
First
Ocean
Extreme
Extreme Poverty
Say
Ours
Eye
Fact
Written
First Generation
Look
Continent
Off
Disease
Africa
Mean
Across
Stand
Whole
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel
Education
War
Ignorance
Fight
Quality
Poverty
Ability
Quality Education
Us
Grants
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
Dennis Kucinich
Home
Destruction
Poverty
Address
Weapon
Weapons
Mass
Mass Destruction
Unemployment
Homelessness
Here
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
Elijah Cummings
Education
Prosperity
Crime
Poverty
Nation
Our
Hopelessness
Unborn
Students
Generations
Safeguard
Providing
Children
Clutch
Help
Save
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
Time
Matter
Poverty
Rich
Society
Questions
Social
Poor
Your
Waste
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin
Positive
Ignorance
Injustice
Goals
Collective
Men
Poverty
Revolution
Fighting
Live
Evils
Only
Variety
Vast
Individual
Seldom
Times
Cured
Reform
May
Predictable
Them
Incompatible
Slavery
I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world's resources.
Jacque Fresco
War
Suffering
World
Poverty
Control
Resources
System
Unnecessary
Would
See
Like
Most
End
Human
Nations
Where
Richest
Human Suffering
No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country.
Jeh Johnson
Travel
Desperate
Will
Long
Poverty
Country
Own
Enough
Security
Border
Border Patrol
Border Security
Entire
Countries
Because
Mexico
Wall
Stop
Size
Patrol
Length
Flee
Doubling
Migration
Illegal
Her
Level
Things
Violence
It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
Joel Osteen
God
You
Prosperity
Will
Poverty
Pay
Live
Instead
Debt
Your
Bills
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Maimonides
Charity
Poverty
Preventing
Anticipate
I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
Narendra Modi
Family
Respect
Seen
Poverty
Cleanliness
Come
Begins
Poor
Need
If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.
Nikola Tesla
Poverty
Power
Every
Our
Machinery
Give
More
More Power
Individual
Misery
Primary
Primary Source
Safe
Reduce
Provide
Source
Existence
Intelligent
Being
Want
Energies
Deserving
Needed
We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.
Paul Kagame
Blame
Culture
People
Opportunity
Responsibility
Poverty
Build
Sit
Others
Back
Must
Rather
Economic
Entrepreneurship
Take
Economic Opportunity
Putting
Than
Get
Improving
Where
Them
Create
Lives
Position
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
Pericles
Wealth
Poverty
Admit
About
Something
Properly
Rather
Shame
No-One
Taking
Practical
Real
Escape
Than
Regard
Ashamed
Boast
Used
Measures
Need
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