#poverty

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#building #come #crisis #economic #economic crisis

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#consciousness #head #heart #hearts #home

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#poverty #rich #socialism

I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #beauty #creation #creativity #credit

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#alleviating #also #am #among #believe

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#because #believe #competitors #create #despair

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#country #enough #families #i #job

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#development #first #first law #law #overall

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together. ↗

— Marc Forne Molne

#fight #human #ill #inevitable #poverty

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible. ↗