#poverty

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#bowl #dad #dust #education #got

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#experienced #i #know #like #live

Poverty is not the root cause of crime. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#crime #poverty #root

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. ↗

— Maimonides

#charity #poverty #preventing

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#poverty #rich #socialism

I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #beauty #creation #creativity #credit

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#alleviating #also #am #among #believe

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#because #believe #competitors #create #despair

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

#country #enough #families #i #job

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#easily #goods #impossible #poverty #soul