#poverty

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It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.


Kin Hubbard


#both #bring #does #failed #hard

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.


Frank McCourt


#absurdity #much #poverty

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.


Charles de Montesquieu


#monarchies #poverty #republics #ruins

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.


Hannah More


#luxury #more #perilous #poverty #quicksand

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.


Jesse Jackson


#build #democracy #die #every #home

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.


Jerome K. Jerome


#blunder #crime #despised #easy #enough

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.


John F. Kennedy


#abolish #different #forms #hands #his

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.


Patrick J. Kennedy


#average #child #england #highest #national

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.


Robert Kennedy


#evil #i #i believe #i believe that #long

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.


Mathieu Kerekou


#i #like #poverty #reaffirm #solemnly