#poverty

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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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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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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Haiti is in desperate poverty. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ↗

— Hannah More

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Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty. ↗

— Jack Kemp

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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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