#pov

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#poverty

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#cross #frontier #poverty

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

— Matthew Lesko

#business #helping #helping people #many #people

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