Poverty Quotes - Page 29

• Today is International Women's Day, and there's a fantastic set of pieces running by an organization called ONE called "Poverty Is Sexist." It's a great way to quickly learn about what's actually going on for women in poverty around the world, and then do something about it.

  Melinda Gates

  Running, Organization, Pieces

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

  Melinda Gates

  World, Around The World

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Childbearing, I mean, if there's no place to go to deliver your baby, then you're the one that's delivering in those unhealthy circumstances. Or if you can't get access to family planning, your chances of surviving and being able to bring your kids up if they come one right after the other, that locks you into a cycle of poverty.

  Melinda Gates

  Baby, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.

  Melinda Gates

  Girl, School, Boys

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Ask every politician and leader: What are your plans to end poverty? What are your plans to protect the climate? What are your plans to eliminate nuclear weapons? To answer these correctly is to bring love into action.

  Jonathan Granoff

  Leader, Climate, Nuclear

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• Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are minorities, Native Americans, immigrants, and women living in poverty and who speak little or no English.

  Robin Lim

  Native American, Risk, Suffering

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• I think it's important for people to say look, what does each party and each candidate have to offer for you. If you want a better future that is going to be reliant on making smart economic policies, compare my husband's eight years with Ronald Reagan's eight years. 23 million new jobs, more than seven million people lifted out of poverty.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Husband, Smart

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• We've got to remember that the core of Christ's plan is to rescue us from sin. Our pain, poverty, and broken hearts are not his ultimate focus. True, he cares about these things, but they're merely symptoms of the real problem.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Real, Heart

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There are people in communities who are actually out there fighting poverty eye-to-eye, soul-to-soul, in neighborhoods that actually do well, that succeed. But for government, I think in many cases, they could do more.

  Paul Ryan

  Eye, Fighting, Thinking

  "House Speaker Paul Ryan On Why He Wants To Customize Welfare Benefits". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, wprl.org. July 18, 2016.

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• If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal our sick political system. That is, not just to address our physical ailments, but the things that determine whether we're going to survive into the next century. That is war, climate change, poverty, etc. We've got to fix our politics.

  Jill Stein

  War, Sick, Political

  "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". Los Angeles Times Interview, www.latimes.com. September 6, 2016.

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• Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

  Paul Simon

  Challenges, Moral, Results

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• I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty.

  Deepak Chopra

  Laughter, Thinking, World

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• There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor at all avocations, he became a great scholar, a statesman, a major general, a Senator, a Presidential candidate.... The truth is, no man ever started so low that accomplished so much in all our history. Not Franklin or Lincoln even.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Struggle, Men, Self

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• What do you think this very difficult situation will push? Especially in the hearts of those who are facing the starvation, facing the unemployment, facing this siege, facing the tragedy of their families - the poverty of their families. Some of them, they didn't find food to eat. What do you expect from them? In spite of death, our people are still patient. But patience has limits.

  Yasser Arafat

  Heart, Thinking, Difficult Situations

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Secret, Desire, Degradation

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• I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, School, African American

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.

  Robert Hass

  Country, Children, School

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.

  Christine Lagarde

  Taken, Years, Numbers

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  India And Pakistan, Political, Victory

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Economic Value, Overcoming, Energy

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I did my residency on the South Side of Chicago.We were taking care of people who were incredibly sick and were really struggling with poverty, and , access to food, and how could they afford their medications.

  Jill Stein

  Struggle, People, Sick

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There are things to be afraid of - like extraordinary poverty and suffering beyond anything I've experienced, and climate change, despots - but there's really nothing to be afraid of when your job is an actor and you're at work, if you're in a place that is safe and full of respect and love, which we are.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Jobs, Suffering, And Love

  "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

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• The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.

  Manmohan Singh

  Father, Ignorance, People

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.

  Manmohan Singh

  Believe, Ignorance, People

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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