When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.
– Marquita BurkeDeJesus
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- All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile. – Chris Hart
- Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day. – Billy Graham
- He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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- Don’t you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days. – Benjamin R Smith
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- …the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics. – Oskar Morgenstern
- The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. – Robert M Pirsig
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- The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision. – Onyi Anyado
- A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. – William Saroyan
- Material poverty doesn’t causemurder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does. – Derric Yuh Ndim
- Poverty without a people’s government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress. – Holly Near
- If we agree that God did not create poverty, then in my opinion, poverty came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations. – QM Sidd
- The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty. – David Berliner
- We won’t let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We’ll kill poverty through education. – Sharad Vivek Sagar
- To fight the poverty, we must feel the poverty. – MF Moonzajer
- Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money. – Barbara Ehrenreich
- We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won – Ronald Reagan
- Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects,acquired,inherited..) – Ikechukwu Joseph
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