Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts.
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
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.
By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.
It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.
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.
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.
Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
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.
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandiz...
Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is... One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation... Poverty is often produced by a rejection of God's love, by man's basic and tragic tendency to...
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.
