Pastoral Resources

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.

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.