Dignity Quote by Barack Obama

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

— Dan Quayle

In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people…

— Helene D. Gayle

There's really no way to break that chain - other than winning the lottery. There's no realistic way to end generational poverty other than…

— Soledad O'Brien

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their…

— George Gilder

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just…

— Iain Duncan Smith

Poverty is a trap: it should be eradicated. It's no real answer just lifting a few children from families stuck on low wages into…

— Dawn Foster

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should…

— Jackie Shroff

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of…

— Johan Norberg

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them…

— Pope Francis