#poverty

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#business #helping #helping people #many #people

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#conferred #conflict #cure #disease #every

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

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

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

#fatality #honour #humiliation #less #position

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#ceremony #connection #jesus #opposite #place

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#chances #go #hallows #his #hollows

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#country #educated #eye #gentlemen #get

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#giving #money #people #poverty #rid

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#beat #begins #beirut #big #big city