Hispanics don't want more programs to make them comfortable in their poverty. What Hispanics really want is more opportunity: the freedom to… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
“I consumed books about social policy and the working poor. One book in particular, a study by eminent sociologist William Julius Wilson… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of happiness undeniably includes the pursuit of material well-being: minimally, being able to secure basic necessities. It can be overwhelming… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
“Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose;… — Piero Gheddo Copy Share Image
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We know that the enemy of upward mobility is not poverty or even other people's success. The enemy of upward mobility is… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
“Writing. It’s easy work. The equipment isn’t expensive, and you can pursue this occupation anywhere. You make your own hours, mess around… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material,… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Growing up in Nigeria I saw real poverty - I experienced it, including living without electricity and doing my homework by candlelight,… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The Democrats need poor, dependent people if they're gonna stay in business. And if we don't have enough poverty at home, we'll… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is… — Neil Postman, The End of Education Copy Share Image
Most people don't see themselves as sitting on that bottom rung as a defense mechanism. The more they blame poor people for… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I realize that I'm in the top one percent of the world. I've traveled a lot. I've seen immense poverty in the… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it,… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
“A government that fails to eradicate poverty is a worthless government, even if it does everything else right, because a poor person… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“But then it is easy, too easy, to sermonize about the dangers of paternalism and the need to take responsibility for our… — Abhijit V. Banerjee Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every other word out of every other Chinese mouth is "development, development, development, development." And that's what they're talking about it -… — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of… — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more… — Russel Honore Copy Share Image
Mostly out of step, young people, especially poor minorities and low-income whites, are increasingly inscribed within a machinery of dead knowledge, social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
I think for a certain demographic of American families that are not living below the poverty line, what is now becoming the… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
