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Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. (Poverty Quotes)
Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn’t about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it’s the truest form of magic. (Poverty Quotes)
Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned. Thus, they seek comfort in all the wrong places. (Poverty Quotes)
When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within. (Poverty Quotes)
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics. (Poverty Quotes)
Mankind’s survival is dependent on man’s ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man’s squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony. (Poverty Quotes)
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism. (Poverty Quotes)
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or ‘tiger family’ stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream. (Poverty Quotes)
I’m the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a family of social enterprises - Samasource, Samahope and SamaUSA - that are working to alleviate poverty by connecting the global community to opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and here in the U.S. (Poverty Quotes)
I’ve done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can’t use it for progress. (Poverty Quotes)
How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we’re not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born. (Poverty Quotes)
Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices (Poverty Quotes)
[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don’t know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience about it. [Albert] Camus has a greater proximity to those in poverty. (Poverty Quotes)
If there is a spot where you have dictatorship, where people are not free, people are not satisfied, they do not find food and shelter, they are under the poverty level, this is a dangerous spot for the whole world, because those people will move, and they will move to different places. They will be carrying bad feelings towards others. (Poverty Quotes)
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War. (Poverty Quotes)
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It’s the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies. (Poverty Quotes)
Poverty can’t be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can’t be the only thing we do to combat poverty. (Poverty Quotes)
Honduras was the original ‘banana republic,’ and its poverty remains extreme (Poverty Quotes)
Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can’t get a bank account; you can’t get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you’re now living in poverty. (Poverty Quotes)
My dad’s main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business. (Poverty Quotes)
In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to fighting poverty, all of the world’s population would enjoy basic social services, such as education, health care, nutrition, reproductive health, clean water and sanitation. (Poverty Quotes)
The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime. (Poverty Quotes)
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity. (Poverty Quotes)
Jamaica’s a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that. (Poverty Quotes)
Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich. (Poverty Quotes)
A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it (Poverty Quotes)
For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence. (Poverty Quotes)
It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn’t miserable, and it wasn’t poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights. (Poverty Quotes)
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English. It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things. I was a little prone to depression. (Poverty Quotes)
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences. (Poverty Quotes)