“I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.” KnowsChildrenMadePovertyMediaGrewGrew UpNeighborhoodDeprived Author:Ving Rhames
“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.” MadeValuesLiteratureBornPoorPovertyFateTaughtTrue Value Author:Anatole France
“.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.” PeopleThinkingMenWorldWantGivingMadeRunningWealthPoorResultsPovertyHellRichEconomicWorshipEconomicsRewardsWinterWarmReformSatanProgressiveCommunistWant UMarxismPitsSlidesGo To HellBad ManPerditionRedistribution Of Wealth Book:All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.” IfsYearsLooksMadeCountryCharacterAbleLastsPovertyEconomyProgressGenerationsExampleGrewPercentEastIndianAsian1960sPhenomenalAsian Countries Author:Manmohan Singh
“There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.” MenMadeActionPovertyPolicyPublic Policy Author:Benjamin Mkapa
“The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert massive pressure on the government to get jobs for all. Together, they could form a grand alliance. Together, they could merge all people for the good of all.” PeopleMenMadeGovernmentTogetherJobsFormRealizingWhitePovertyPressureBoatMassiveWhite ManAlliancesUnemployed Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration.” WorldWayLooksMadeCountryReasonProblemCertainChoicesCommunityDealsPovertySeriousIllnessDeeperMental IllnessDestroyingIncarceration Author:John Legend
“A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders.” YearsMadeIdeasPoliticalLeaderPovertyCasesSeeingEconomicYears AgoExtremesDebateConsensusFringeEmergingBusiness LeadersPolitical LeadersExtreme PovertyPolitical Debates Author:Winnie Byanyima