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Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.


Ricardo Lagos


#cross #frontier #poverty

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.


Gary Locke


#citizens #class #country #done #economic

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.


Alfred Marshall


#classes #derives #during #extinguished #gradually

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.


Washington Irving


#come #empty #end #hollow #keeping

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

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.


Henry Fielding


#hear #neither #nor #poverty #reason

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 can teach lessons that privilege cannot.


Jack Klugman


#lessons #poverty #privilege #teach






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