Ending poverty Quote by Edward Kennedy

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

— Anonymous

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

Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we…

— Barack Obama

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

— Theodore Parker

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

— Seneca the Younger

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

— Rand Paul

Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth of a…

— Henry Hazlitt

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

— Hank Johnson

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

— Publilius Syrus

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

— Anonymous

“Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things.”

— Matthew Desmond

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and…

— Jack Kemp