In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
“Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found.… — Horace Copy Share Image
As a nation, there are many issues we don't talk about, we just don't talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The… — M.R.C. Kasasian Copy Share Image
“The desire of most people on earth is to make money and money seems to be the greatest motivation in life for… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We have to tackle child poverty by getting to people when they are young, through education, giving them hope and making sure… — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of… — Dave Lindorff Copy Share Image
If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The public found that an ill-regulated and extravagant credit system, whilst it had made the few rich, had consigned to loss, ruin… — Adam Wasserman Copy Share Image
“Re: Google's worth exceeding that of Russian stock market. Now, that adds up to a lot of moolah...nevertheless through social (EYES) maybe… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives,… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
