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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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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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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

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

— Deng Xiaoping

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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

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Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together. ↗

— Marc Forne Molne

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Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. ↗

— Roger Moore

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Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

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