#poverty

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. ↗

— Peter Singer

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My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

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The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

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For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

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Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

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It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

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As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

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Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. ↗

— Jean Paul

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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