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Poverty Quotes
"Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence."
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"I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality."
161
"Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality."
160
"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."
93
"The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty."
65
"Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders."
62
"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."
62
"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."
61
"The streets are a poor kid's PlayStation."
57
"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
56
"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."
56
"When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then."
55
"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."
54
"Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve."
54
"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."
52
"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
52
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
51
"At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line."
51
"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
49
"I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the daytime, you would give me a sou!"
49
"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
48
"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty."
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"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."
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"There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that."
45
"That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous."
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