Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.
Only FREEDOM has ever been the answer to poverty.
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.
It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.
With poverty everything becomes frightful.
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.
Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere
Poverty is not natural; it is man-made
Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]
The poor are only they who feel poor.
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth. . . we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.