Poverty Quotes - Page 25

• I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know?

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, Two, Good Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.

  Louis C. K.

  Years, Two, Ego

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• MTV has turned more young women into whores than poverty.

  Dov Davidoff

  Women, Mtv, Young

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• I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

  Dat Phan

  Struggle, Trying, Abundance

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• We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2015.

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• The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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• The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

  Leila Janah

  Sexy, People, Giving

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• I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.

  Werner Bischof

  Believe, Tasks, Our Lives

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• Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.

  William Greider

  Distance, Reality, Principles

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• Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Defense, Bombs

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• Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mind, Produce, Estates

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

  Napoleon Hill

  Spiritual, Opposites, Two

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.164, Penguin

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• I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

  Marc Andreessen

  People, Development, Billions

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• Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

  Struggle, Character, Social Behavior

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• Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Block, Years, People

  "Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin America, and the History of the U.S. in the Middle East". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 17, 2011.

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• As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Dream, Growing Up, Kids

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• Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way.

  Jonathan Ames

  Struggle, Book, Class

  "Jonathan Ames: The X-rated Woody Allen". Interview with Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

  Elliott Abrams

  Republic, Bananas, Honduras

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• The policies being promoted are insane... If you believe energy poverty is a good thing, you should support controls on carbon emissions. But most of the world disagrees with that.

  Myron Ebell

  Believe, Carbon Emissions, Support

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• Every day you make a choice either to sow some of your seed or to eat it. When you exercise faith and sow, you release God's law of prosperity. When you give in to your fear and eat your seed, or hide it, you release God's law of poverty.

  John Avanzini

  Exercise, Law, Giving

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• Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Spiritual, Devil, Disease

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• Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Girl, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately, I was able to get scholarships to excellent schools, but I was one of the lucky ones. All of this is what draws me to anti-poverty organizations like Oxfam.

  Joy Bryant

  School, Grandmother, Organization

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• What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. People lost everything - family, friends. The rich culture of Cambodia was nearly extinguished. They are a nation of survivors. And while poverty and infant mortality affect a disproportionate amount of the people there, those I met were hopeful for the future and doing the best they can with
  what they had.

  Joy Bryant

  Country, People, Hopeful

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

  Hugo Chavez

  Latin, Tired, Neoliberalism

  Source: www.progressive.org

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