Best poverty & worst Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous”

“The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.”

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Author:Rohinton Mistry

“The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.”

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Author:Livy

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.”

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Author:George Holyoake

“The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.”

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Author:Fay Weldon

“Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.”

“The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.”

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Author:Unita Blackwell

“The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.”

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Author:Wendell Berry

“The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral resources that the present drain will quickly run them out.”

“The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.”

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Author:Lindsey Graham

“Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.”

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Author:Mark Winne

“When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.”

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

“Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“Poverty is the worst form of death.”

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Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.”

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Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty." This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true.”

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Author:Mary Robinson

“We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should do everything we can to improve outer circumstances - remedying poverty, inequalities, conflicts, and so on - while also doing our best to achieve a state of mind that give us the inner resources to deal with the ups and downs of life.”

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Author:Matthieu Ricard

“The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the north of India, where there's horrendous poverty. The number of girls in many of these places is so low that it has social consequences. You get young men without jobs and without women, and this leads to chaos and political danger. But the south of India is very different.”

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Author:Barbara Crossette

“I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school. We moved to the UK where I grew up in poverty, in some of the worst conditions in a developed economy, before moving to the projects - heaven - and I went to unremarkable schools before going to university. My father was a bus conductor first and then a waiter, and my mother a seamstress.”

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Author:Zia Haider Rahman

“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.”

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Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

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