Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
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Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
Poverty is unnecessary.
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
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