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Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

— Robert Kennedy

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

— Jeb Bush

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

— Daniel De Leon

Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.

— Theresa May

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

— Kathleen Blanco

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

— Alan Watts

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.

— Joe Klein

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

— Russell Simmons

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

— Jonathan Kozol

✗Opposing Perspectives

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

— Robert D. Kaplan

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

— Adam Davidson