#poverty

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do. ↗

— Don Johnson

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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

#been #care #endeavors #every #every man

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

#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

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

— Mathieu Kerekou

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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

#destruction #here #home #homelessness #mass

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

— Hans Kung

#destruction #families #human #human beings #hundreds