#poverty

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

#learned #learned man #like #man #ornament

Affluence creates poverty. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#creates #poverty

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. ↗

— Pam Grier

#circumstances #i #i came #part #poverty

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#extreme #extreme poverty #feel #feel good #go

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#brought #country #criticized #democratization #dictator

I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#family-planning #population-control #poverty #family

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#comes #hard #hard times #i #i think

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty. ↗

— Eugene Sue

#often #poverty #rock #trips #virtue

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

— Herbert Hoover

#any #final #land #nearer #other

There is something about poverty that smells like death. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#death #like #poverty #smells #something