#poverty

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me. ↗

— Little Richard

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Haiti is in desperate poverty. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#haiti #poverty

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it. ↗

— John Burns

#big #big problem #cope #effort #impossible

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#coming #generations #learn #love #poverty

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#fixes #indigenous #poverty #quick #social

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#before #children #diarrhea #die #diseases

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#being #country #environments #great #great men

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#build #democracy #die #every #home

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do. ↗

— Don Johnson

#decision #going #i #i do #level

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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