Causes Of Poverty Quotes - Page 2

• The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

  Michael Parenti

  Dirty, Political, Poverty

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.21, City Lights Books

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• The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, People, Enemy

  "The Family". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. October 1998.

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• There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’

  Madsen Pirie

  Energy, Asking, Poverty

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• First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Teenager, White, Community

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  H. Rap Brown

  Country, People, Black

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• Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful, provide more money, and eventually strike at the system-causes of poverty. Government believes that poverty is just a lack of money. We felt, and continue to feel, that poverty is actually a lack of skill, and a lack of the self-esteem that comes with being able to take some part of one's life into one's own hands and work with others towards shared-call them social-goals.

  Karl Hess

  Running, Self Esteem, Believe

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• The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Thinking, Scarcity

  Alan H. Cohen (2011). “How Good Can It Get?: What I Learned from the Richest Man in the World”, p.14, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Struggle, Ignorance, Government

  Twitter post from Apr 11, 2017

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• We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.

  Al Gore

  Eugenics, Suffering, Environmental

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• One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Charity, Addresses, Poverty

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

  Julius Nyerere

  People, Poverty, Pennies

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• Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.

  Peter Eigen

  Real, Two, Differences

  "Corruption Still Rampant In 70 Countries, Says Corruption Perceptions Index 2005". www.transparency.org. October 18, 2005.

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• The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Ignorance, Self, Poverty

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• Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

  Paul Ryan

  Class, Roots, Growth

  "Reps. Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen Talk Policy, Politics; Justice Stephen Breyer on New Book". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.

  Madsen Pirie

  Trying, Want, Poverty

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• We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.

  Pope Francis

  Order, Justice, Waiting

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