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

— Herbert Hoover

#any #final #land #nearer #other

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

— Eric Alterman

#american children #children #five #living #number

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder. ↗

— Russell Moore

#evangelism #poverty #family

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce. ↗

— Alan Autry

#doors #i #industry #open #opportunity

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#poverty #sad #well #wise #you

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#bell #difficult #dinner #make #out

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#honest #never #never forget #poor #poverty

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#children #concerned #deal #deeply #development