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There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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