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"73 Poverty Quotes

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
Poverty Good sense Crime
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Poverty too. Very profitable business.

Poverty Business Profitable
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We must make concerted efforts to banish poverty from Nigeria. To rid Nigeria of poverty is indeed a task that must be done.

Concerted effort Banish poverty Be done
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Eradicating poverty can only be achieved when we develop and improve on our nations’ greatest resource – the people.

Eradicating poverty Achieved Improved Greatest resource
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Guy! You're not an indoor person, you're broke.Poverty will make you think you’re an introvert. Get money and see something.
Indoor person You're broke Poverty Make you
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Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease.

Most people Poverty War Famine
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I want to fight poverty and ignorance.

Want Fight poverty Ignorance
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Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
Morality Matter Money Poor people
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Corruption is itself central to the spread of poverty.
Corruption Central Poverty
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A Nation that is rated headquarters of the people living in extreme poverty should search for, and insist on, new leadership paradigms. Ability to assemble the best brains for getting the country back on track is one of those leadership paradigms.

A nation Rated headquarters People Living
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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
The fellow No money Poor Has nothing
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Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.

Poverty Hardship Created False thinking
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South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people’s opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.

Poverty problem Result Corruption Taxes
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I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Be rich Affluent Greedy Hell
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Poverty is not only a disease but also a climax

Poverty Disease Climax
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We continue to ensure that nobody is denied justice on account of poverty

We continue Ensure Nobody Denied justice
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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune

The happy Powerful Into exile Surer guarantees
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Eradication of poverty must be a collective responsibility.

Eradication Poverty Collective responsibility
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Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being
Poverty Lack Money
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Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

Poverty Deprivation Opportunity
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Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

Most Interested Rich Don't
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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

Freedom Saved Enlarged Poverty
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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.

Soon We Prudent People
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Soil infertility is a key driver of poverty and can affect food systems and food security in quite extraordinary ways.

Soil infertility Key driver Poverty Food systems
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Africa should fight poverty through enhanced agriculture and a greater say on our mineral and other resources. It’s about time

Fight poverty Through enhanced Agriculture Greater say
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Emotional poverty is the worse poverty. The only way Africa can grow for real is to Reject emotional poverty.

Emotional poverty The worse Can grow To reject
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Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Wealthy men Can't live An island Encircled
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I had grown up in brutal poverty, and saw touch as a privilege for those with less traumatic backgrounds.

Grown up Brutal poverty Privilege Traumatic backgrounds
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The burning desire to overcome the limitations that confine our people to poverty, inequality and undignified life, compelled us to formulate the HPP, as a tool to fast-track development and draw us closer to the attainment of our National Development Plans and Vision 2030.

Burning desire Overcome The limitations To poverty
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Poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We must eradicate these ills for the benefit of all.

Poverty Disease Inequality Must eradicate
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Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

Rips Poor World Hunger
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My critics accuse me of not doing enough over the past 40 years to reduce poverty,but not a single member of my family is poor. Most are millionaires!

My critics Accuse me Doing enough Reduce poverty
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There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

No reason A nation As rich Be blighted
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Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is no deficit in human resources -it is a deficit in human will.

We have To feed Be poverty Our science
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Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious

Poverty Socialism Rich Glorious
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We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Must talk About poverty People insulated Own comfort
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They must see that the source of their poverty are these people who purport to be their leaders

Must see The source Their poverty These people
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If the palliatives are meant for the really poor, then this should not be surprising as we all know that the North is disproportionately poorer than the south. Not everything should be about politics and division.

The palliatives Really poor Be surprising All know
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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Poverty Give you Strength Teach you
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My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.

My school My tribe We have Study
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

The existence Poverty The proof An unjust
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Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.

Poverty Gift Loss Gain
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By and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Poor Rich Opportunity Skill
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Tackling period poverty is necessary to eliminate stigma, myths and cultural taboos associated with menstruation.

Tackling Period poverty Eliminate stigma Myths
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Poverty is a bastard.

Poverty A bastard
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Fighting poverty isn’t the answer. Creating prosperity is,they’re not the same thing.

Fighting poverty The answer Creating prosperity Same thing
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Improving poverty metrics without hope is akin to improving symptoms of a disease without focusing on the root cause. The patient, unfortunately, still dies.

Improving poverty Metric Without hope Symptoms
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The problem is neither malaria nor mosquitoes, or this new strain.The problem is poverty. Parts of the US once struggled with malaria. We keep focusing on the wrong problem.

The problem Malaria Nor mosquitoes New strain
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In the face of a global crisis that threatens to plunge millions into poverty, stopgap measures will only go so far.

Global crisis That threatens Into poverty Stopgap measures
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Instead of fighting poverty, what if we focused on building prosperity? It's not semantics. The two are entirely different.

Fighting poverty Focused on Building prosperity Not semantics
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