Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.
The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.
To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty.
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.
Poverty is just a state of mind.
Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.
When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By contrast, Labour says, we are also incapable of doing anything about poverty, but would dearly love to do something. If we knew what.
Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.
In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.
This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!