#poverty

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides. ↗

— James Reston

#hides #poverty #wealth

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

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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

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

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As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%. ↗

— Steve Israel

#america #benefit #current #over #poverty

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined. ↗

— Steve Israel

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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#abolish #different #forms #hands #his

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#average #child #england #highest #national

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#evil #i #i believe #i believe that #long