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Poverty Quotes by Barack Obama
- As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to…
- Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed.
- If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't…
- Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.
- We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty
- Today, we are closer to fulfilling America's promise of economic and social justice because we stand on the shoulders of giants like Dr. King, yet…
- It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
- There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at…
- Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris.…
- [A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this…
- We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice…
- Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you…
- Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
- The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
- In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.
More Poverty Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin