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I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

Tran Duc Luong

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Sophia Loren

Poverty

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Conviction

Poverty

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Daniel De Leon

Poverty

Self

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

Ricardo Lagos

Poverty

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.