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America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty. — Chris Van Hollen

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable. — Wess Stafford

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children. — Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born? — Catherine Marshall

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty. — Ann Veneman

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children. — Kailash Satyarthi

At the greatest levels of affluence, and the deepest levels of poverty, parents share the same desire for their children to have a better future. — Adam Braun

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising. — Eric Alterman

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price. — Robert Kennedy

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty. — Bob Hawke

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society. — Anthony Biglan

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world. — Hans Rosling

Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental. — Sasha Grey

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. — Nicholas D. Kristof

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ. — Pope Francis

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time. — Gary Shteyngart

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty. — Kirk Douglas

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty. — Robert Anton Wilson

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty. — Mario Diaz-Balart

Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin. — Craig Stone

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire
— Nelly Sachs

U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute. — Nicola Sturgeon

The church wanted us to give out food to malnourished children, but they didn't want us to question why they were malnourished to begin with. — Elvia Alvarado

Among the nation's 100 largest counties, the one where children face the worst odds of escaping poverty is the city of Baltimore, the study found. — Anonymous

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans. — Marian Wright Edelman

Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches. — Matthew Desmond

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. — Chris Van Hollen

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty. — Tupac Shakur

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right. — John Key

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty). — Warren Farrell