“It is better to purposefully spend time with people talking about things that could improve them or talk about things that could… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King… — William Steig Copy Share Image
The factory work that lifted millions out of poverty in places like China and Vietnam probably did cost some workers in North… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives,… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my… — Tavoris Cloud Copy Share Image
“Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels. And without… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war.… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of… — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods,… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Whenever you make up your mind to go into solitude, you must decide first of all what you want to go and… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty."… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila… — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
“The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time. Tragically, though, it is that same time that is often least treasured… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Homeless people living in a poor country - by acceptable means, is common almost unavoidable. Homeless people living in a rich one,… — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of… — Benjamin Hooks Copy Share Image
Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has… — George Canning Copy Share Image
There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“When poor people hear a loud noise, they whip their heads around. Wealthy people finish their sentences, then just glance back.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Putting women first would mean strengthening America's social safety net, because a higher proportion of single-mother families live in poverty here than… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
