#poverty

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty. ↗

— Robert Casey

#access #children #during #had #into

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#creation #exhausted #fail #father #final

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#aspirations #bottom #dictionary #erased #india

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#country #eradicate #human #material #nigeria

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#communities #concerned #deliberately #efforts #fell

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy. ↗

— Will Oldham

#accept #allowing #almost #america #doing

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#beautiful #desolation #hard #i #i think

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. ↗

— Bernie Sanders

#below #child #current #federal #full-time

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock

#gone #house #how #keeps #means

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. ↗

— Anais Nin

#acted #being #come #every #fate