Viola Davis

It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

American Actress

Alicia Keys

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

American Musician

Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Albanian Saint

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

German Poet

John Bishop

Comic Relief funds projects that help lift people out of poverty.

British Comedian

Rutger Bregman

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Dutch Historian

Jimmy Dean

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

American Actor

Jay Parini

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

American Writer

Emmanuel Jal

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

Sudanese Musician

Theodore Parker

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

American Theologian

Focuses on the lack of essential resources for survival and daily life.

Physical Needs

'Absolute poverty' refers to a severe, clear-cut lack of resources.

Absolute Term

Used more broadly for various degrees of financial hardship.

General Lack

Conveys a sense of hardship and struggle beyond numbers.

Emotional Weight

Often used with statistical measures in economic contexts.

Economic Indicator

Commonly appears in discussions about government action.

Policy Language

Depends on a defined threshold that can vary by location.

Relative Measure

Can refer to lack of non-financial elements, like 'ideas'.

Beyond Money

May describe a situation figuratively, not involving wealth.

Figurative Use

 Others can affect entire nations, such as cycles of corrupt government or climate change. But the cruel irony of welfare traps in particular is that they stem from the very policies designed to battle poverty. Most societies throughout history employed some strategies to help people in poverty meet basic needs.

Why is it so hard to...

 In a flash, he realized that looking for answers at the extremes was a mistake. The middle way between luxury and poverty seemed wisest. And while meditating under a bodhi tree, the rest of the answer came to him. All of life abounds with suffering. It's caused by selfish craving

The five major world...

 but by the amount of happiness you spread and the amount of meaning you give. I believe in a future where the point of education is not to prepare you for another useless job but for a life well-lived. I believe in a future where an existence without poverty is not a privilege

Poverty isn't a lack of...

 and through his teaching, became one of China's greatest philosophers. Born to a nobleman but raised in poverty from a very young age following the untimely death of his father, Confucius developed what would become a lifelong sympathy for the suffering of the common people.

Who was Confucius? -...

 future to help us really continue to reduce poverty and we want to make sure that we hold people accountable for that progress we let them know what's happened and really inspire the next generation of leaders who are going to take these tasks on we want them to know

Innovating to Improve...

 And not just to tears, but to actually stop the genocide. Now by contrast, I've also been involved with one of the world's greatest successes of compassion. And that's the fight against global poverty. It's a cause that probably has involved all of us here.

Gary Haugen: The hidden...

 a hard life to a wrecked house you still have to live in. Those splinters and tacks feel real, they hurt your own feet and your own heart, but the mother is describing her life here, not her actual house. And hunger, and cold, exhausting work and poverty

The art of the metaphor...

 good to destroy my first snare but unfortunately there are many more just like it with so many settlements surrounding the forest and extreme poverty poaching is an ongoing problem I'm afraid of stepping on a trap the poachers are not

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 written these notes skinny world poverty guy okay that guy what's one of the guys that I got so upset I loved his vision and I loved that he had such a concrete way of dealing with the poverty and when

TED2016 in review PIPE...

 Have you ever tried to picture an ideal world? One without war, poverty, or crime? If so, you're not alone.