Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
There are still hungry people in Ethiopia, but they are hungry because they have no money, no longer because there is no… — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher Copy Share Image
The legacy of the embargo will be Cuba's poverty and desperation. When the island comes out of it, they'll be even more… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the… — Bono Copy Share Image
Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“Being born into a prosperous middle-class family typically endows you with a safety net for life. If you are not naturally very… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
“Deprivation or overstimulation, combined with fear and peer pressure, are the conversion tools of many religions. A loud Pentecostal service, an Evangelical… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Since I have escaped the harshness of the economic bounds of poverty, I have stayed very connected to it spiritually. I reside… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s… — Bryant Gumbel 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 have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
“The most profound betrayal of feminist issues has been the lack of mass-based feminist protest challenging the government’s assault on single mothers… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Right now in this world, a child is dying from an ailment because its family cannot afford to buy charcoal for boiling… — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it "the antidote to the rest of the world."… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If… — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
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