Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in… — Ruth First Copy Share Image
“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I can't eradicate poverty, but at least for the people around me, I can help make sure no child is denied a… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Our brave men and women have made many sacrifices in just wars to defeat the forces of evil. We have exported our… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil… — Morena Baccarin Copy Share Image
“Killing the cancer of the heart is important for good living, but eradicating the cancer of the pocket is IMPORTANTER.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
“What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Since everything is destructible including life, you should, therefore, make the best out of life while it lasts.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“To become the king of your territory you must not allow any of your time pass without converting it into building your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“...hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth. p 290” — Frank Huyler Copy Share Image
As long as we give room for domination and the dominators, there will be worries and worried people. Poverty and pestilence will… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
“I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image