#poverty

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#become #companies #creates #global #good

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person. ↗

— Justin Bieber

#become #below #better #better person #built

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#around #because #environment #fight #how

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#apathetic #continue #homelessness #ignore #maddening

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#beyond #care #culture #education #extends

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#begs #bespeaks #bread #daily #daily bread

Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#group #hispanic #largest #make #now

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#anything #around #even #find #laughter

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem. ↗

— Alex Cox

#big #big problem #corporations #creates #dictate

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. 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

#course #flowery #give #hunger #inequality