#poverty

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#covering #face #greatness #mask #obscures

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#bringing #considerably #destroying #down #leave

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#democracy #fight #freedom #grow #happens

We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#day #goal #god #help #nation

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#comes #limit #margins #miss #much

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#flowery #give #hunger #inequality #lectures

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. ↗

— Viola Davis

#acting #age #environment #escaping #grew

He is now rising from affluence to poverty. ↗

— Mark Twain

#now #poverty #rising

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#after #contributions #difference #enormous #face

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty. ↗

— Donald Evans

#country #creating #debate #economic #economic growth