Poverty Quotes - Page 31

• You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up; it's been frozen for so many years.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Believe, Years

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

  Indira Gandhi

  Technology, Rights, Problem

  Source: sangam.org

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• I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Cancer, People

  Source: sangam.org

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• For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

  Indira Gandhi

  Years, India, Stills

  Source: sangam.org

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• Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.

  Indira Gandhi

  Years, Cities, Long

  Source: sangam.org

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• The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, People, Black

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there hasn't been a corresponding increase in the private sector. What is especially painful is government policy bailed out the banks without making them make reinvestments for rebuilding. The result is 53-million Americans are food insecure, 50-million Americans are in poverty, 44 million are on food stamps, 26 million are looking for a job.

  Jesse Jackson

  Teacher, Jobs, Insecure

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

  Desmond Tutu

  Levels, South, South Africa

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

  Dorothy Day

  Mean, Bags, Rich

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• Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in the rural areas, that's true. But rural America, you can say the same thing, in Appalachia there's an awful lot of poverty and lack of education.

  Michael Bloomberg

  America, Cities, Awful

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the number of people that have to sleep without a roof over their heads, the number of people that are illiterate.The world is better.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Sleep, Years, Numbers

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Class, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment to help every child in poverty in this country than I am in being able to mobilize the country around providing a benefit specific to African Americans as a consequence of slavery and Jim Crow.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Children, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• [The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Believe, Ideas

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Views, White

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.

  Kiki Smith

  Space, Suffering, Low Income

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• If you look at the families who live below the poverty line, only 47% of them have internet access at home. And of that low income population, they are disproportionately urban and people of color, which makes it a social justice issue.

  David L. Cohen

  Home, Color, Internet Access

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The number-one reason women say they returned to their abuser is financial insecurity. Often they have kids with them. They say half of the 66 million women and kids living in poverty in the US wouldn't be if women were just paid their full dollar. That's an enormous impact we could make on child hunger.

  Patricia Arquette

  Children, Kids, Impact

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

  Patricia Arquette

  United States, Nations, States

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Reading, Kids, Black And White

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• You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

  Danny Glover

  War, People, Police

  Source: progressive.org

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• The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

  Danny Glover

  Issues, Immigration, World

  Source: progressive.org

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• Barack Obama's been president for about eight hours; President Obama was here for eight years. So if you want to talk about numbers that matter, it's quantifying all the losses - the women who were slid into poverty, those who can't find meaningful work, and their children who deserve a better life.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Meaningful, Children, Loss

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Levels, Addresses

  Source: www.gov.za

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• More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Military, Democracy

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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