#poverty

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region. ↗

— King Hussein I

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Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american children #children #five #living #number

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ↗

— Antiphanes

#poverty #schoolmaster

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

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

— Daphne Zuniga

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

— Mario Diaz-Balart

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

— Bill Cosby

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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

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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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