#pov

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

#i #like #poverty #reaffirm #solemnly

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

#crime #like #poverty #punishment #you

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#find #first #get #give #jobs

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#destruction #here #home #homelessness #mass

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ↗

— Hans Kung

#destruction #families #human #human beings #hundreds

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#based #definition #destroy #discrimination #does

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#backgrounds #been #both #came #college

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#denies #earth #economics #embraces #enterprise

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#does #must #our #poverty #problems

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity? ↗

— Paul Ryan

#class #class warfare #economic #economic stagnation #go