#poverty

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty. ↗

— Robert Casey

#access #children #during #had #into

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#aspirations #bottom #dictionary #erased #india

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock

#gone #house #how #keeps #means

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#god #gospel #handicapped #hold #mentally

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#ceremony #connection #jesus #opposite #place

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#chances #go #hallows #his #hollows

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#country #educated #eye #gentlemen #get

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#giving #money #people #poverty #rid

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#beat #begins #beirut #big #big city

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#beautiful #desolation #hard #i #i think