#poverty

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

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

— Patrick J. Kennedy

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

— Robert Kennedy

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

— Mathieu Kerekou

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Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

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We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ↗

— Hans Kung

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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

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