#overt

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#business #helping #helping people #many #people

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#congress #constitution #courts #masters #men

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#does #exploit #frustration #ideas #make

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud. ↗

— Gary Locke

#citizens #class #country #done #economic

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#conferred #conflict #cure #disease #every

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#caused #common #crime #kind #poor

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock

#gone #house #how #keeps #means

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

#fatality #honour #humiliation #less #position

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#chances #go #hallows #his #hollows

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock. ↗

— Dudley North

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