Poverty Quotes
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Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation, and advancement of one’s own culture and social organization.
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We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars… if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
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Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
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While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
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If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
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As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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Poverty is not made by God, it is created by you and me when we don’t share what we have.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.