We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression.” — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based life.… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to show for… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the history of the recruitment of labor is an uninterrupted story of coercion either through the brute force of poverty or… — Michael Perelman Copy Share Image
“Discover what you could do with your life and empower yourself in that area. Add value to yourself in that your area… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously,… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
“My childhood was one of both poverty and plenty, suffering and joy. I was taken out of poverty, both financial and emotional,… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“It was a hard life, a life of poverty, of incessant struggle, of toil ill paid, of disappointment, but Cervantes carried within… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view.… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I have been broke a lot of times, but I have never been poor. Poor is just a state of mind, and… — Sara Bokhari Copy Share Image
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As policy makers, Congress has the power to promote public policies that economically empower single parents and drastically reduce childhood poverty. — Marc Veasey Copy Share Image
“You must arrest every passing time and convert it into growing your knowledge and prowess in that chosen field of influence.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfillment of your purpose.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
“I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes?… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“The world awaits your products. Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products. Begin to convert your time into products. Begin to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“Food in our society is a chronic poverty need, not a life-threatening one. And when we respond to a chronic need as… — Robert D. Lupton Copy Share Image
Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination,… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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