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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
I think, for me, the biggest issue is poverty in general, poverty in this time of plenty. It's reflected in homelessness. It's… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
“When's the election?" "Next Tuesday. Y'all niggers going to vote for me?" A slender snaggle-toothed boy waved his hand in front of… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of… — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image
“Ree Dolly stood at the break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat. Meat hung… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
“Then, left alone, shivering, I happened to glance up. I stood, I froze, blinking up through the drift, the drift, the silent… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I grew up in Brooklyn, in what I now know was poverty. Sharing a tiny bedroom with my two brothers, eating government… — Theodore Melfi Copy Share Image
When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
To become rich in no time is very easy. The only thing you have to do is to look at those who… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“we sometimes fail to recognize the signs of poverty, loneliness, grief, fear, and desolation in our own city, our own village, or… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“... when a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and… — Menander Copy Share Image
As a poor person and someone who now writes extensively about social and economic justice, I've often noticed a lack of a… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Most elderly are retirees with relatively low incomes. But some may possess assets, and they will be classified as poor. As such,… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“If you fear poverty, poverty will chase you down. If you fear wealth, wealth will evade you. Fear and money are horrible… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Copy Share Image
I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
“Give that your one life your best input so that it could yield the best output in the form of products that… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
