#pov

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me. ↗

— Little Richard

#day #education #me #out #poverty

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

Haiti is in desperate poverty. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#haiti #poverty

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#creates #incentives #lead #long #negative

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#build #class #combined #done #educate

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it. ↗

— John Burns

#big #big problem #cope #effort #impossible

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#coming #generations #learn #love #poverty

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#fixes #indigenous #poverty #quick #social

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#both #bring #does #failed #hard

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#absurdity #much #poverty