Ending Poverty Quotes - Page 5

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

Andrew Cuomo

Money, War, Poverty

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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

George Bernard Shaw

Civilization, Poverty, Danger

George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

Ignorance, Justice, Black History

Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.

Ted Trainer

May, Poverty, Poor

F. E. Trainer, Ted Trainer (1996). “Towards a Sustainable Economy: The Need for Fundamental Change”, Jon Carpenter Publishing

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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Animal, Economic Inequality

Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington, 16 January 1787

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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

P. J. O'Rourke

Giving Money, People, Libertarian

P.J. O'Rourke (1991). “PARLIAMENT OF WHORES A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”

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The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

Dalai Lama

God, Peace, Responsibility

The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

Edward de Bono

Compassion, People, Together

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Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Roger Moore

Frustrated, Poverty, Violence

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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Men, Race, Land

The Souls of Black Folk ch. 1 (1903)

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Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Pearl S. Buck

Sad, Men, Hunger And Poverty

Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Good Earth”, p.154, Open Road Media

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At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

Jeffrey Sachs

Feet, Keys, Ladders

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With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Poverty

"Satires (Satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.

Hillary Clinton

Couple, Believe, College

Source: www.npr.org

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Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

Patch Adams

Mean, Excellence, Poverty

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Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Jim Yong Kim

Challenges, Energy, Poverty

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