#poverty

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

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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

I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#family-planning #population-control #poverty #family

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people. ↗

— Don Herold

#many #must #people #poor #poor people

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#country #depths #enactment #gamble #going

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american children #children #five #living #number

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ↗

— Antiphanes

#poverty #schoolmaster

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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