Quotes of: Extreme-poverty Keyword

Today's youth will determine if we're going to fail or succeed in ending global poverty by 2030

Desmond Oshifeso

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

Daphne Zuniga

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Eric Alterman

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

Grace Meng

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

Henry Louis Gates

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

Herbert Hoover

We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.

Herbert Hoover

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

J.S.B. Morse

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

John A. Powell

Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Johann Lamont

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Bono

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

Sherrod Brown

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

Tracy Chapman

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Eric Butterworth

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

Abdolkarim Soroush

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

Anzia Yezierska

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

Tom Vilsack

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

Nicholas Johnson

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

Ruth First

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

Ban Ki-moon