Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.
There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.
I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
