#poverty

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#change #democratic #desire #does #economies

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#middle #middle east #more #politics #poverty

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#escape #families #jews #left #poverty

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. ↗

— Plato

#community #neither #noblest #nor #poverty

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#am #familiar #i #i am #life

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#big #chances #countries #debt #done

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

#day #education #me #out #poverty

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#because #brethren #developing #developing world #die

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