#pov

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty. ↗

— Zoe Lofgren

#enjoy #helps #kept #millions #only

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#been #big #birth #born #had

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. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#board #children #critical #extraordinary #first

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. ↗

— Maimonides

#charity #poverty #preventing

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #been #conquer #fortunate #many

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#building #come #crisis #economic #economic crisis

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#consciousness #head #heart #hearts #home

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#poverty #rich #socialism

I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #beauty #creation #creativity #credit

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#alleviating #also #am #among #believe