Quotes: Poverty

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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Haile Gebrselassie

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People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

Marcy Kaptur

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Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Deng Xiaoping

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Oh, I realize it’s a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I’ve worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Arthur Sheekman

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Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Muhammad Ali

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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as “Soho” poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Quentin Crisp

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

Patrick J. Kennedy

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn’t be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

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