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...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it. (Poverty Quotes)
India is a functioning democracy - despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course (Poverty Quotes)
There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing. (Poverty Quotes)
I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty. (Poverty Quotes)
Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people. (Poverty Quotes)
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy. (Poverty Quotes)
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it. (Poverty Quotes)
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty. (Poverty Quotes)
I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease. (Poverty Quotes)
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad. (Poverty Quotes)
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it’s a faith issue, it’s a religious issue. (Poverty Quotes)
In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That’s a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on. (Poverty Quotes)
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing. (Poverty Quotes)
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil. (Poverty Quotes)
Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don’t earn enough to keep their families out of poverty. (Poverty Quotes)
No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty (Poverty Quotes)
I’ve still got family members living below the poverty line in New York (Poverty Quotes)
Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they’re right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes. (Poverty Quotes)
If you search for poverty, you’ll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family. (Poverty Quotes)
Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty. (Poverty Quotes)
I believe in the power of media. I really do. It’s my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I’m enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I’m saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances. (Poverty Quotes)
Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That’s unacceptable. (Poverty Quotes)
There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn’t feel sorry for yourself. (Poverty Quotes)
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic (Poverty Quotes)
I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It’s not good if that female president brings an agenda which is actually hostile to the cause of living wages. Women need equal wages to men, but not equal wages at poverty. (Poverty Quotes)
I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other. (Poverty Quotes)
The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, ‘Miracle in Milan.’ It’s a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration. (Poverty Quotes)
When the producers of ‘Why Poverty?’ came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims. (Poverty Quotes)
The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness. (Poverty Quotes)
Poverty, I realized, wasn’t only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself. (Poverty Quotes)