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Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#change #democratic #desire #does #economies

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#middle #middle east #more #politics #poverty

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#escape #families #jews #left #poverty

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#fair #made #poverty #rich #who

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#because #brethren #developing #developing world #die

The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#attempted #centre #character #fascism #fight

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

#blunder #crime #despised #easy #enough

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%. ↗

— Steve Israel

#america #benefit #current #over #poverty

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined. ↗

— Steve Israel

#american workers #among #declined #dramatically #economic