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I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. -- Willie Nelson
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. -- Christine Gregoire
It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty. -- Jessica Jackley
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest. -- Stephen Hawking
I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty. -- Marc Andreesen
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. -- Nicholas Johnson
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty. -- Eartha Kitt
Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty. -- Zoe Lofgren
Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things. -- Niall Ferguson
Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty. -- Nicola Sturgeon
A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty. -- Tracy Chapman
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. -- Kathleen Blanco
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do. -- Alicia Keys
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress. -- Hans Rosling
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
Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty -- Morgan Freeman
Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating. -- Edward Zigler
Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid. -- Bono
Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship. -- Pierre Omidyar
The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs. -- Charlie Munger
Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty. -- George H. W. Bush
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty. -- Benjamin Franklin
A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it. -- Bernie Sanders
I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty. -- Walter Inglis Anderson
You give your way out of poverty but you sacrifice your way to wealth. -- McWilton Chikwenengere
Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty. -- Ban Ki-moon
I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty. -- Marc Andreesen
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty -- Eartha Kitt
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth â?? these are one and the same fight. -- Ban Ki-moon
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life. -- Naveen Jain
Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class. -- Juan Manuel Santos
This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty. -- Muhammad Yunus
Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
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
It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty. -- Sherrod Brown
No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty. -- John H. McWhorter
When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years. -- Muhammad Yunus
Educated and productive young people are needed to help #â?? LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth. -- Rush Limbaugh
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty -- Barbara Mikulski
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. -- Barbara Mikulski
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good. -- Michael Franti
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination. -- Amy Sedaris
In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security. -- Queen Noor of Jordan
The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty. -- Diane Ravitch
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother. -- Russell Baker
The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation. -- Warren Mundine
Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty. -- John F. Kerry
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me. -- Little Richard
Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it. -- Marco Rubio
Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty? -- Juan Williams
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. -- Richard Lugar
It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty. -- James Roosevelt
Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty. -- Grace Napolitano
I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty. -- Rodrigo Rato
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
Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business. -- Joyce Banda
Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not a neighborhood is improving and its residents are living better. -- Henry Cisneros
Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence. -- Scarlett Johansson
My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right. -- James McBride
Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined. -- Mitt Romney
Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law. -- Dennis Hastert
Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy. -- Peter Blair Henry
Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty. -- Donald Evans
I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty. -- Muhammad Yunus
For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. -- J. K. Rowling
We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity. -- John Mackey
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits. -- Walter E. Williams
Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. -- Barney Frank
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world. -- Willie Nelson
Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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
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
Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty. -- Muhammadu Buhari
The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud. -- Gary Locke
With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Our brave men and women have made many sacrifices in just wars to defeat the forces of evil. We have exported our greatest values: freedom and opportunity, which have lifted millions out of poverty. At home, these values allow Americans to use their God-given potential and make their dreams reality. -- Marco Rubio
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty. -- Viktor Yanukovych
You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous. -- Noel Gallagher
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty. -- Bill Gates
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. -- Kofi Annan
Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety. -- Saadi
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty. -- Matsuo Basho
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out. -- Suze Orman
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out. -- Russell Simmons
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to -- Phillips Brooks
The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade. -- Charles Koch
With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out. -- Robert Pollok
Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,. -- Chris Patten
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. -- Fidel Castro
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening. -- Desmond Tutu
Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches. -- Daniel Gilbert
As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime. -- James Reston, Jr.
Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out -- Mark Twain
The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road. -- Iqbal Quadir
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. -- Walter Bagehot
Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs. -- Jill Stein
...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that. -- Sue Sanders
The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps. -- Jesse Jackson
For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty. -- Fawzia Koofi
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene. -- Wallace Stevens
Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports. -- Marshall Faulk
State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy. -- Ernie Fletcher
Poverty might make you obscure, but if you continue churning out wisdom to solve more problems and challenges, you will neither remain poor nor die in obscurity. -- Archibald Marwizi
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people. -- Deepak Chopra
Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease. -- Paul Theroux
Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming. -- Joel Salatin

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