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Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs… — Natalie Portman
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder… — Jeffrey Sachs
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs,… — Jeffrey Sachs
All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of… — Jeffrey Sachs
Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor. — Muhammad Yunus
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor. — Seneca the Younger
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud! — William Shakespeare
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance,… — Albert Camus
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because… — Jean Kerr
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands… — Mary McCarthy
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,… — Oscar Wilde
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not… — George Bernard Shaw
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. — Seneca the Younger
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it. — Finley Peter Dunne
Poverty consist in feeling poor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. — Josh Billings
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. — Samuel Johnson
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be. — Kin Hubbard
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from… — David Lloyd George
Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness. — Tony Snow

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