“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.” ThinkingWayMeanGovernmentEasyPoorOpinionPovertyDrivingBest WayWelfareFederal GovernmentDoing GoodProperty RightsWelfare StateAmerican LibertyRevolution Founding FathersGeneral WelfareGovernment And SocietyGovernment Politics Book:Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.” WayFeelsSeemsEvilFeltPovertyBest WayRespectable Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“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.” WayNeedsFirstsPovertyConflictBest WayPreventing Author:James Wolfensohn
“The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.” WayHelpingPoorPovertyBest WayUncomfortableHelp The Poor Author:Benjamin Franklin
“One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.” WayGirlFightingForcePovertyLaborTerrorismBest WayEducateFormalLabor Force Author:Sheryl WuDunn
“Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.” PeopleWayPersonsHelpingDifferencesPovertyBest WayLastingHelping PeopleBoost Author:Naveen Jain
“The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.” PeopleWayWantGivingEndsPovertyDiseaseSexyBest WayCuresFundDonorsPreschool Author:Leila Janah