Poverty Quotes - Page 37

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

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

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

The problem in Peru is not so much poverty - it is inequality. The essence of the discourse in 2005 and 2006 is the same one that we have maintained in 2010 and 2011. My macroeconomic policy is to strengthen and ensure economic growth but with social inclusion.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.

The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people.

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.