#poverty

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

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder. ↗

— Russell Moore

#evangelism #poverty #family

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#poverty #sad #well #wise #you

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

#bell #difficult #dinner #make #out

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#honest #never #never forget #poor #poverty

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#comes #could #diagnosed #genius #graces

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#counties #located #people #percent #persistent

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#also #become #birth #bonding #break

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #cut #immigration #poverty #sentencing

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way. ↗

— Tom Waits

#almost #any #constant #constant state #create