#poverty

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. ↗

— Nicholas Johnson

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It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

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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

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

— Patrick J. Kennedy

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

— Robert Kennedy

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I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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