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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, Water, Health

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

Loneliness, Alone, 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

Think, Homeless, Start, Sometimes, Kind

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

World, Rest, Long, Injustice, Inequality

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 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, Real, Poor, Aspirations

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, Growth, Opportunity, Good

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, Gender, Goal

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. Dennis Prager

Good, Good And Evil, Evil, Value, World

Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner. Pratibha Patil

Work, Strong, Hunger, Duty, Delivery

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence. - Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is the worst form of violence. Mahatma Gandhi

Violence, Worst, Form

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

Growth, Child, Problems, Unemployment

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. James A. Baldwin

Poor, Expensive, How, Knows, Who, Ever

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

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

World, Violence, Development, Human

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. Charles B. Rangel

Education, War, Ignorance, Quality, Us

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, Child, Together, End

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

Suffering, People, Gender, Pledge, Other

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

Environmental, People, World, Serious

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. Rainer Maria Rilke

Life, Daily, Yourself, Blame, Daily Life

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, Hunger, Nothing, Eat

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right. Ban Ki-moon

Education, Children, Good, People, Right

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

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