Sentences with phrase «faces widespread poverty»

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His personal story — born in poverty in the South Bronx, growing up around drugs and violence, then making it out of the ghetto and winding up at Harvard — was what gave him the passion and the commitment to create the Harlem Children's Zone in the face of numerous obstacles and widespread skepticism.

According to Wilson, Darwin told his contemporaries «that their land - grabs in Africa, their hunger for stock - market wealth in the face of widespread urban poverty, their rigid class system and their everlasting wars were not things to be ashamed of, but actually part of the processes of nature».

Mary Evelyn Tucker, one of the most eloquent voices of the eco-spiritual movement, spoke at the U.N. about the daunting challenges faced by 21st - century humanitarians: widespread environmental degradation, crippling poverty, social inequities and unrestrained militarism.

Our hypotheses were motivated by the widespread environmental inequities (both physical and psychological) faced by children living in poverty along with increasing evidence that environmental stimulation, parental nurturance, and early life stress affect brain growth and functioning.