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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
Loneliness
,
Unwanted
,
Most
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
Environmental
,
Scarcity
,
Our
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
,
Sometimes
,
Kind
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
Society
,
Feel
,
Rob
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Nelson Mandela
Rest
,
Injustice
,
Gross
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton
Alone
,
Self
,
Richness
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
Disease
,
Social
,
Treatment
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
Death
,
Abuse
,
Bodies
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Nelson Mandela
Suffering
,
Gender
,
Other
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
Violence
,
Worst
,
Form
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
Jon Corzine
Rich
,
Minimum Wage
,
Fact
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Smith
Tragedy
,
Poor
,
Aspirations
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
Equality
,
Goal
,
Promoting
This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.
Tom Colicchio
Lunch
,
Diet
,
Exercising
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel
Think
,
Vulgarity
,
Some
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
,
Everyone
,
Lifts
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
Stress
,
Which
,
Entails
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
,
I Think
,
Everybody
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
Kailash Satyarthi
Labor
,
Other
,
Social
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Jimmy Dean
Motivational
,
My Life
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
,
Scientific
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
Wagon
,
Your
,
Larger
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius
Wealth
,
Ashamed
,
Badly
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
Poetry
,
Daily Life
,
Creator
When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.
Matthew Quick
Values
,
Kid
,
Sometimes
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel
Education
,
Ignorance
,
Grants
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