“We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.” PoorPovertyBuiltRemoveBarriersTraps Book:Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 Source: Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
“If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.” IfsMeanPovertyIncreaseMiseryProfitIllnessDisasterPermanentRemoveMisfortunesAlleviate Author:Leonard Read
“There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.” WarJusticePovertyDiseaseTerroristRemoveTyrantsFamineDeclaringVehemenceDeclaring War Author:Tony Blair
“Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.” ActionJusticePovertyConditionsInjusticeDefenseDiscriminationCommunismBombsRemoveRighteousnessDefeatedOffensiveBehalfAtomic BombRacial Discrimination Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.” PeopleWantGivingYearsLongTwoHomeRememberWealthPovertyGoneEconomicBuildingProjectsCrisisCome UpRemoveTwo YearsHospitalsWipePhilippinesRemember MeMarcosEconomic Crisis Author:Imelda Marcos