It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
“The danger of procrastination is that it gives you fake impression that you have all the time and makes you forget that… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather… — David Ross Copy Share Image
Women are more focused on the development of the quality of life in their countries. They are more involved in social and… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
“How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
“The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
“From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and… — J. Don Cook Copy Share Image
Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Educated and productive young people are needed to help # LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world. — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem. — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
“Invest maximum amount of time into refining your gift and become best at what you were called to do and you will… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Universal credit is not lifting up the most vulnerable people in crisis. Instead, it's pushing them further into poverty, hardship and destitution. — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
“A variation on this strategy was implicit in a new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of… — Arnold Hiatt Copy Share Image
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that dead men are still impacting the world while men who are still alive are wasting away, roaming… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“Every single thing can change for the better, no matter however hard it is. Even a family in utter poverty can become… — Tarun Sharma Copy Share Image
