We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in… — George Rogers Clark Copy Share Image
This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“Choose the territory you want to conquer and invest your time into developing yourself in that area until you become the best.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where… — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
“I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away… — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
“Many people----women especially----remain trapped in the poverty into which they were born. The successful person from this background is the exception. The… — Nancy Isenberg Copy Share Image
“Homelessness is illegal. In my city no one is homeless although there are an increasing number of criminals living on the street.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The poverty we see in America is now too widespread, and too complex, for easy fixes. But I do think we can… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Socialism and communism are set up so that a select few elite get most of everything and the rest of society is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children… — Maxine Hancock Copy Share Image
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. — Dorothy Dix Copy Share Image
Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not? — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Food poverty exists because of unemployment, low wages, high costs of heating, as well as problems at the DWP including delays in… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
“An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
“But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.” — Ondrelique C. Ouellette Copy Share Image
Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you… — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
“I do not want you to live in the dream world because time erratically passes away in that world. Come to reality… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The government would devote all its effort to empower the poor and give them strength to fight poverty. Skill development would be… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother… — Theodore T. Munger Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I have witnessed millions of children suffering from the deprivation of basic rights such as the rights to education, the rights… — Choi Si-won Copy Share Image
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
