Quotes of: Extreme-poverty Keyword

Poverty of young men alone behind the stairways, who practice alchemy inside bottle caps, who know the altruism of a last syringe.

Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Pope John Paul II once said as well, “Lebanon is a message more than it is a country.” Now this diversity has turned into fragmentation and the richness into poverty, awaiting a miraculous remedy.

The Bees Road

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

Beyond The Devil's Teeth

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World

Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without econ...

Adam Braun

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms ca...

Ban Ki-moon

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

Thomas Perez

Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness.

Americanah

Jacksonville has a rich history, full of poverty, plight, and poor economic decisions. If you follow the phrase "Follow the money" literally, you'd have left town decades ago.

I am Jacksonville

Give a man a teacher and he'll learn many a thing. Teach a man to learn and he'll learn from everything.

ICE SKATING IN THE TAJ MAHAL - a totally non-depressing look at poverty

The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

My Beloved World

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

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

The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God.

Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Poverty might make you obscure, but if you continue churning out wisdom to solve more problems and challenges, you will neither remain poor nor die in obscurity.

Making Success Deliberate

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

Nick McDonell