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The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.


George Gilder


#any #families #first #male #poor

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

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.


Joseph Howe


#before #books #cannot #exclude #few

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated.


Jennifer Hudson


#barefoot #change #change the world #children #dirt

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

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.


Juvenal


#men #poverty #qualities #rise #thwarted

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.


Abdul Kalam


#been #development #even #half #human

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.


Alveda King


#democrats #discussion #economic #economic growth #fought

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.


Anthony Trollope


#misery #picturesque #pitiable #poverty #rural






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