For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty. — Johnny Colt Copy Share Image
Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness. — Charles Best Copy Share Image
What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand. And if we are all born equal that should be true… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is… — Horace Copy Share Image
Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
“The trouble is Indians aren't used to being prosperous. We are more comfortable dealing with poverty- after all, poverty has been the… — Shobhaa De Copy Share Image
Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks. — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
You don't need to come from poverty to say growing up is tough. You can have everything in the world going for… — Justin Chatwin Copy Share Image
“Creating equality in the society means helping poor to become prosperous and not asking prosperous to become poor.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off.… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image
One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which… — John Danilovich Copy Share Image
“People who have become great have only become great because they bought that greatness. They purchased that greatness but only through the… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My mom grew up in extreme poverty, and always spoke of it with a look of disgust. She felt pressured to fit… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you’ve been wasting your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“I would rather hide in desolation and poverty, whether it be in the Baseborn Quarters or the Tenantless, than be the cause… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Every man has been called to produce a certain number of products within the time allocated to him to live on earth… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose. — Eric L. Haney Copy Share Image
Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
