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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."
43
"Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality."
39
"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."
35
"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
13
"There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that."
11
"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."
11
"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."
11
"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."
10
"When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then."
10
"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."
10
"Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders."
8
"The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty."
8
"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."
8
"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."
8
"Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve."
8
"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."
7
"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."
7
"That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous."
7
"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty."
7
"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
7
"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!"
7
"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
6
"Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty."
6
"Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth."
6
"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
6
"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."
6
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