Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.
I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.
When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.
If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.
It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!
Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.
Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.
The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.
Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.
Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!
