#poverty

There is something about poverty that smells like death. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region. ↗

— King Hussein I

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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. ↗

— Kofi Annan

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Poverty affects people of all races. ↗

— Bill Bennett

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Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient. ↗

— Milton Berle

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