My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty. — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“But if out of every dollar given to aid, ten cents makes it to the poorest people in the world, that is… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Strange to relate, these simple folk were perfectly happy without money and without silver watches. Abject poverty was practically unknown; they had… — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share Image
The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If I cannot address the issue of visible homelessness and abject poverty on the streets of this community, I will not get… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often,… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
“The people of Rwanda were not an insignificant black mass living in abject poverty in a place of no consequence. They were… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that the principal cause of this misery in Nigeria lies in the actions of the leaders themselves, who,… — Barack Okaka Obama Copy Share Image
When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity… — Rex Tillerson Copy Share Image
Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
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