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“We must strengthen our character, only then we can strengthen the country and make it free from corruption, poverty and illness.”
Ramdev (born 1965) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in Wirth, Maria - Thank You India, A German Woman's Journey To The Wisdom of Yoga. Garuda Prakashan Private Limited (2020)
“The Kiowas and Comanche have made with you a peace, and they intend to stick to it. If it brings prosperity to us, of course we will like it better. If it brings poverty and adversity, we will not abandon it, because it is our contract, and it will stand. We hope now that a better time has come. If all would talk and then do as they talk, the sun of peace would forever shine.”
Satanta (1820–1878) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From "a peace council held in October, 1867, on the Arkansas river, in the present state of Oklahoma, between United States peace commissioners and the principal chiefs of four Indian tribes." J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontie…
“The average European, whether male or female, is extremely sensitive, always ready to shoulder the blame for the poverty of Africa or Asia, to sorrow over the world’s problems, to assume responsibility for them, always ready to ask what Europeans can do for the South rather than asking what the South could do for itself.”
Pascal Bruckner (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This book will make clear that people with disabilities have lived and continue to live with disproportionately higher rates of poverty because of specific social structures, ideologies, and practices that hinder their social advancement.”
Kim E. Nielsen (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pandemic has certainly brought more poverty. There are people who have lost not only their loved ones, but have lost work (and) closed business. One has to confront this situation. Certainly it's a call for governments and the church.”
Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte (born 1948) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Latin America’s bishops to confront increasing poverty after COVID-19 (20 November 2021) Catholic News Service
“In this Season of Advent I am more aware that we unite with the whole Church and especially in Pakistan to prepare the welcome the Birth of Our Saviour whom comes to us in poverty and in the midst of our joys and sorrows. Finally when I see the red mission box I know how important those pennies are to the lives and faith of our brothers and sisters.”
Kevin John Dunn (1950–2008) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle visits Pontifical Mission Societies in Pakistan: “at Sangla Hill. we prayed that from the ashes of the destruction new life would be born” (1 December 2005) Fides News Agency
“Freedom can only be a word amidst debilitating poverty”
Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poverty has also endeavoured to enlist the usefulness of a hook-up wooden radio and a standing fan - albeit a scrawny and temperamental oddity.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is good to be told, in a world often marked by violence, poverty, and despair, that God loves us.”
François Thibodeau (1939–2023) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Final Message of Bishop François Thibodeau, C.J.M. (2009) Diocese of Edmundston
“Common suffering unites. But when suffering becomes intolerably acute, when it reduces people to abject, dehumanising poverty and insecurity, suffering disunites.”
Es'kia Mphahlele (1919–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unemployment is the gateway for many families to poverty and social exclusion, but employment is not always the way out of social exclusion because the salary received is not sufficient to meet the minimum requirements of a dignified life.”
Rafael Zornoza Boy (born 1949) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Not always employment is the way out of social exclusion (2 March 2015) Fides News Agency
“The Asian situation - cultural, religious and social - is relatively congenial to the preaching of the Good News of the Kingdom of God preached by Jesus Christ and rendered present in His person and life, as it is fulfilling the aspirations and hopes of the Asian people steeped in the misery of poverty. Hence the Church should take it as its supreme task.”
Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil (1935–2007) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: - H. Exc. Most Rev. Cyril Baselios MALANCHARUVIL, O.I.C., Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars (25 April 1998) Press Office of the Holy See
“There’s an experienced rebel, Time, And in his squadrons Poverty; There’s Age that brings along with him A terrible artillery: And if against all these thou keep’st thy crown, Th’usurper Death will make thee lay it down.”
Thomas Flatman (1635–1688) first seen 1686 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Defiance", in Poems (1686)
“To my mind, the key to assisting in the solution of problems that we have all over the world is education. We can talk a lot about how each and everyone needs to share in the problem of getting people out of poverty, but you can't do it if the mind is not developed.”
Bernard Giluk Dompok (born 1949) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pope receives first Resident Malaysian Ambassador to the Holy See (9 June 2016) Vatican Radio
“Sattar (my son) wanted a free Iran, eliminating poverty, and happiness of people.”
Gohar Eshghi (1946–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no other reason [for leaving the DA] than the poverty levels in this province‚ I have to admit‚ [and] that is why it had not been an easy decision to make”
Nosimo Balindlela (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The DA lacks action on poverty, that’s why I left”
Nosimo Balindlela (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the age-old practice of female circumcision is one of the traditions that have kept the tribe mired in deep poverty and social inequality”
Agnes Pareyio (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a ministry, we are committed to reducing poverty especially among girls and women and ensuring that gender disparity which perpetuate inequality is reduced if not eliminated. We must make people aware of the laws and ensure these laws are implemented”
Otiko Afisa Djaba (born 1962) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Otiko Djaba named 2018 Best African Gender Minister June 26, 2018
“Our strategic goals are to meet the energy needs of Uganda’s population for its social and economic development in a sustainable manner, as well as to use the country’s oil and gas resources to contribute to the early achievement of poverty eradication and to create lasting value to society”
Mary Goretti Kitutu (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is going to take a holistic approach for this to get contained because when you don’t address the issue of poverty. teenage pregnancies will continue rising.”
Rachael Magoola (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is our firm belief as government that climate action must support our national imperatives to address poverty, inequality, and unemployment”
Nonceba Mhlauli (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The removal of these two barriers is one of the most effective strategies for reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development.”
Akon Etim Eyakenyi (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our country has taken a number of steps to mainstream gender perspectives in poverty-reduction strategies. These have led to the implementation of various income support programmes including development initiatives for rural women”
Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In 1997, if you had asked me if I would run for the presidency, I would have thought you were crazy. However, as I traveled back and forth from Germany to Zambia and witnessed the economic decline and poverty, I started to rethink my position.”
Gwendoline Konie (1938–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I chose to run for President because I believe that the first country in Africa to address poverty, hunger, and disease while promoting women's participation in decision-making will achieve significant development.”
Gwendoline Konie (1938–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was a situation of a "zero venture fund zone" aimed at supporting local nationals across all Sub-Saharan African countries, where approximately 70 percent of the population lived in poverty.”
Gwendoline Konie (1938–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world has become such a boiling pot of conflicts, the source of which varies in type and magnitude. Inequality and uneven distribution of the national resource, bad governance, deprivation of basic human rights and freedom, poverty and unemployment, particulary among the youth and women, are some of the causes of conflicts in the world today”
Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“it is only through proper commitment, strategies and planning that South Africa can find solutions to its citizens’ day-to-day challenges such as unemployment, poverty, and crime”
Chana Pilane-Majake (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poverty is the major problem that has caused early pregnancy and marriage among the young girls in Kamuli and Mayuge.”
Kayaga Baroda Watongola first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Is contraception way to go in battle against teenage pregnancy?", bukedde.co (July 28, 2023)
“When a soldier enters war his priority is not to survive but to assassinate the enemy and he automatically survives. Our target must not be to survive but to encounter poverty and we will be automatically successful.”
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As developing countries the overriding priorities of developing countries are socio-economic development with emphasis on poverty eradication, job creation, health and education and of course to bring real changes to our people in far flung rural areas.”
Buyelwa Sonjica (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“improving access to potable water and sanitation was critical to achieving favourable health outcomes, which in turn facilitated economic growth and sustained poverty reduction.”
Theresa Amerley Tagoe (1943–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lack of public housing, poverty, illiteracy, street violence, rape, lack of opportunities and entrenched corruption are all aspects of the Morocco that Oum Hamza is fighting against.”
Lalla Batoul (1801–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://tn.boell.org/fr/2014/05/27/lalla-el-batoul-oum-hamza-moroccan-womens-going-fight-equality-and-dignity-publications?amp
“Hard men and women, from Barion’s firsthand recollection: not always thinking of God but seeing Him hard as themselves when they did. Their descendants much the same, not as hard but needing that peculiarly American form of religious ecstasy blended of poverty, ignorance, degenerated mysticism, collected injuries and the need for vengeance.”
Parke Godwin (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was 7, my mum always told me: the best way out of poverty is quality education.”
Estelle yomba (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Also, it is equally important for my students to gain insightful reasoning to determine all on their own what is the value of education, if any, for black and brown students, and if the societalfactors that exist such as being stereotyped and the effects of poverty impact their future.”
Priscilla B. Anderson (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Therefore our MuniMec as a working session on matters relating to human settlement should engage on finding innovative measures of enhancing service delivery and eradication of poverty amongst our communities.”
Nombulelo Mabandla (died 2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a greater feminisation of poverty arising out of the global economic turmoil which has affected the majority of people all over the world. In Africa women continue to till the land yet still fight for access to land. Women seeking ownership rights still have to face and challenge traditional culture in terms of its gender bias.”
Lulama Xingwana (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liberation theology proclaims that Christians are called to play an active role in doing battle with the systemic sins and evils of society – called to take responsibility for liberating people from the burdens of poverty and oppression... As (Tom) Langford points out, people who focus exclusively on liberation become fanatic and glum...”
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my mind, as a child at that time, the only way to escape poverty was to go to school. It was at that time that I decided to commit myself to school.”
Ann Itto Leonardo (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Therefore, I thank the Office of the Governor and the entire team for your prompt actions to ensure that we bring changes to the lives of our people as we fight this war against hunger and poverty”
Aino Kapewangolo (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“68% of our Ugandans are still stuck in subsistence farming meaning that they are more vulnerable to poverty. It is therefore in the interest of the government to partner with the media to enhance the dissemination of information, educate the masses especially on savings and cooperatives as a vehicle for development”
Joyce Nabbosa Ssebugwawo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m not sure if it’s a matter of laziness or a reluctance to escape poverty, but many of you parents have not joined PDM yet continue to blame the government for not helping. How do you expect to be helped if you’re not taking the necessary steps yourself”
Irene Linda Mugisha (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fund rolled out by the government is intended to alleviate poverty at the parish level across the country and tasked benefiting groups to spend it only on the enterprises they selected.”
Grace Kwiyucwiny (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“within the context of the fight against poverty, the Government had established health centres, improved the education system and promoted human rights protection. The judiciary and court systems were also strengthened. The participation of the private sector was also encouraged with more non-governmental organizations taking part in the process.”
Jeanne Dambendzet (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unless we're making the argument of "Let's leave three quarters of the people in the world living in abject poverty." I do not see any legitimate rationale behind trying to limit China's growth or trying to oust China from the global supply chain.”
“However, there are a number of factors that have perhaps constituted hindrances to the realisation of the expected target. Examples of such factors are poverty, early marriage, insecurity and other cultural factors. Nevertheless, we are certainly moving; change is eminent, though slow.”
Saadatu Hassan Liman wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prioritize dispelling ignorance: the root cause of poverty.”
John Mulagada (1937–2009) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diocese Holds Rally to Educate Dalits, Women on Rights (21 January 1998) Union of Asian Catholic News
“The Emmaus movement offers a new status to each of its members by allowing them to use their talents, energy and time to work others free from poverty’s clutches.”
Joséphine Ouédraogo (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source