It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no… — Jackie Shroff Copy Share Image
Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“You are to use this one life to make a difference in your world. You are to invest your time and not… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never… — Alexander Guchkov Copy Share Image
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“One would hope that if the world woke up to such a reality, it would swiftly acknowledge and respond to the disaster—but… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
What you don't want to do - if you're concerned about poverty, if you're concerned about providing opportunity - you don't want… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
“The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
We're not going to let the United States continue to have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the industrialized… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
“These things happen to poor people who live in exposed areas. Society is set up in such a way that it’s the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Nor am I nostalgic, as a French philosopher once wrote, for a lost poverty. I am nostalgic for the solidarity and sharing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Actualize the dreams now and don’t procrastinate them for the future. Use every second, minute and hour that you have to fulfill… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income.… — Rodrigo Rato Copy Share Image
So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope… — Madhu Vajpayee Copy Share Image
We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let… — Patricia Young Copy Share Image
As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing… — Cristela Alonzo Copy Share Image
“As long as you present poverty as something dignified, the establishment will not be disturbed. The establishment will not act adversely as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Looking at these people now from behind the counter, made her feel like that little girl again, the deprived child that used… — Effrosyni Moschoudi Copy Share Image
“The only way to saturate the earth with your products like Steve Jobs is to invest your time doing what you were… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
![“[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars . . . seafaring . . .” quote by Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/51e/marsilio-ficino-20663_borders_nature-said-the-sea-shall-disjoin-the-pe_2497332.png)
