#poverty

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#any #final #land #nearer #other

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#bring #does #failed #happiness #hard

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#child #divorce #growing #growing up #home

I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#broader #christians #disease #environment #even

So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#critical #driver #economic #economic issues #families

There is something about poverty that smells like death. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#essential #extreme #extreme poverty #freedoms #humane

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#art #art of war #became #castle #chieftain

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ↗

— Antiphanes

#poverty #schoolmaster