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“Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.”

People Helping Community Poverty Policy Essentials Lifts Empowering Activist Advancing Marginalized

Author:Michael Franti

“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.”

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Author:Richard Lugar

“With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.”

People Given Decision Poverty Millions Security Needed Deserve Reform Lifts Agendas Prominence

Author:Kumi Naidoo

“Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.”

People Thinking Way Helping Earth Opportunity Wealth Powerful Poverty Policy Development Creating Institutions Lifts Most Powerful Creating Wealth

Author:Peter Blair Henry

“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.”

“Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.”

Individual Careers Poverty Lifts

Author:Christine Gregoire

“The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.”

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.”

Should Jobs Poverty Workers Lifts Minimum Wage Living Wage

Author:Bernie Sanders

“What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.”

People Way Poverty Rights Lows Lifts Vulnerability Wages

Author:Winnie Byanyima

“...stand with me today and pledge to work for an America that doesn't ignore those in need and lifts up those who wish to succeed. Pledge to hold your government accountable for ignoring the suffering of so many for far too long. And pledge to do your part to build the America that we have dreamed of - where the bright light of opportunity shines on every person - an America where the family you are born into, or the color of your skin, will never control your destiny.”

“Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.”

People Turns Poverty Disease Cures Lifts Unrest Social Unrest

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.”

“No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.”

People Helping Compassion Poverty Lifts

Author:John H. McWhorter

“Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.”

Thinking Giving Mind Heart Lost Secret Wonder Poverty Failing Talent Battle Wine Thanks Release Lifts Bottles Anxious Load Evoke Cowardly

Book:The Satires of Horace and Persius

Source: The Satires of Horace and Persius

“Taking bold climate action now has the potential to unleash the full power of business and at the same time lift millions of people out of poverty. We're the first generation to recognize this and the last generation that will have this opportunity.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.”

Needs Feelings Poverty Burden Lifts Embarrassed

Author:Jay-Z

“Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.”

People Done Helping Government Kids Strong Class Poverty Our Lives Middle Program Lifts Enterprise Middle Class Educate Free Enterprise

Author:Mitt Romney

“I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.”

Poverty Tiny Lifts Enterprise Providing Loan Poorest Illiterate

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts”

“Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!”

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Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.”

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Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

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