#overt

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#deceptive #got #people #poverty #real

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

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#best #best way #conflict #dealing #first

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

#learned #learned man #like #man #ornament

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#despotism #fetters #freedom #our #possessions

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. ↗

— Pam Grier

#circumstances #i #i came #part #poverty

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#extreme #extreme poverty #feel #feel good #go

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#brought #country #criticized #democratization #dictator

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#poverty

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#beggar #both #envy #guilt #his