Poverty Today Quotes

• There is another important point: encountering the poor. If we step outside ourselves we find poverty. Today-it sickens the heart to say so-the discovery of a tramp who has died of the cold is not news. Today what counts as news is, maybe, a scandal. A scandal: ah, that is news! Today, the thought that a great many children do not have food to eat is not news. This is serious, this is serious! We cannot put up with this! Yet that is how things are. We cannot become starched Christians, those over-educated Christians who speak of theological matters as they calmly sip their tea.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Children, Heart

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ”, p.21, Loyola Press

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• There are millions more people living in poverty today than the day that Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton at his side, stepped into the oval office.

  Mike Pence

  People, Office, Today

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Poverty, World

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• Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Change, Letting Go, Anchors

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2013

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• To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the global average income was much lower, but on a comparison with what would be possible in our time, given the current global average income and level of technological and administrative development.

  Thomas Pogge

  Past, Average, Focus

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

  Anna Quindlen

  War, Character, Today

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• There's 6 million people living in poverty today, more than when Barack Obama got elected. 6.5 million people are working part-time, most of whom want to work full-time. We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.

  Jeb Bush

  People, Income, Growing

  Jeb Bush at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from it. Yes, those living in poverty today will be hit first and the hardest, but we are all going to feel it and see it. We already are.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Going Away, Firsts, Climate

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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