#poverty

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

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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

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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

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An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

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For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. ↗

— Kim Campbell

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Money can't buy poverty. ↗

— Marty Feldman

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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. ↗

— Ray Charles

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Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again. ↗

— Ruth First

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