Quotes About Alleviating Poverty

#1. Christian magazine Sojourners, likes to point out that the Bible contains more than three thousand references to alleviating poverty - enough reason, he thinks, for making this a central moral issue for Christians.

Peter Singer

#2. Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.

Oscar Arias

#3. Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

Lewis Thompson Preston

#4. Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon.

Marc Morial

#5. A liar only lies when he hopes to be believed.

Rudyard Kipling

#6. What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder because its effects, though good for Nature, run counter to your convenience or jar your opinions.

Marquis De Sade

#7. I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.

Peter Davis

#8. I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

Jon Meacham

#9. The tides are in our veins.

Robinson Jeffers

#10. Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.

Nelson Mandela

#11. I was becoming convinced that the world was a colorful, variegated grab bag full of bastards. But

Pat Conroy

#12. We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Simone De Beauvoir

#13. There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize.

John McAfee

#14. Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

Mark Winne

#15. I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.

Rose McGowan