Quotes of: Extreme-poverty Keyword

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.

Michael Franti

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

Mark Foley

I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.

Jonas Gahr Store

At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.

Gerald Chertavian

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Chaka Fattah

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace

I have no taste for poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

David Foster Wallace

Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left behind.

Ellen J. Barrier

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Eduardo Galeano

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

George Gilder

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Henry Ford

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

Jean Paul

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Jose Andres Puerta

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Jerry Doyle

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Jim Yong Kim

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome K. Jerome

I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.

John Mackey

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

Noam Chomsky

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

Saint Teresa of Avila