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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. - Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa

Loneliness, Feeling, Unwanted, Terrible

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. Ban Ki-moon

Change, Growth, Women, Health, Water

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. - May Sarton

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. May Sarton

Alone, Loneliness, Solitude, Self

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass

Justice, Ignorance, Society, Feel, Class

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. Mother Teresa

Homeless, Start, Think, Sometimes, Kind

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. - Adam Smith

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. Adam Smith

Tragedy, Poor, Real, Aspirations

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. Nelson Mandela

World, Rest, Long, Inequality, Injustice

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. Kofi Annan

Good, Challenge, Equality, Building

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time. Grace Abbott

Children, Time, Together, Child, End

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. bell hooks

Life, Food, Death, Child, Violence

The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society. Coretta Scott King

Women, Faith, Community, Power, Great

For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution. Bruce Rauner

Education, Growth, Great, Challenge

No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country. Jeh Johnson

Travel, Border, Enough, Violence, Wall

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. William J. Clinton

Education, Good, Growth, Opportunity

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Mother Teresa

Think, Person, Nothing, Unwanted, Eat

Poverty is the worst form of violence. - Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is the worst form of violence. Mahatma Gandhi

Violence, Worst, Form

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. Nelson Mandela

People, Suffering, Gender, Pledge, Our

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. - Coco Chanel

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Coco Chanel

People, Think, Luxury, Some People, Some

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. J. K. Rowling

Fear, Depression, Stress, Yourself

The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage. Klaus Schwab

People, Environmental, World, Inequality

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Life, Prayer, Death, War, Church, Done

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. - Jimmy Dean

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. Jimmy Dean

Motivational, Life, My Life, Greatest

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems. Kailash Satyarthi

Growth, Child, Problems, Labor, Social

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Change, Good, Character, Politics, Fight

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 hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. Barack Obama

Life, Yourself, Ambition, Potential, You

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs. Wayne Dyer

Great, Depression, Money, Parents, Care

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