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People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country.

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

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

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

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.

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

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

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

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

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

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

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.

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

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.