You don't want to hear that there are over 60 million women in poverty on President [Barack] Obama's watch. And Hillary Clinton… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
“Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the poor in spirit . . . .” This is the first principle in the kingdom of God. The underlying… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
“FLIES IN DISGUISE Tell me, Have you Really seen Flies in a child's eyes Or heard their hungry cries In the middle… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Though riches had charms, poverty had no terrors for an inexperienced girl like me. Indeed, to say the truth, there was something… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“At the end of the school day, we walked the long, cold way home feeling happy and hungry. There we found a… — Jenny Lee Ellison Copy Share Image
To really tackle poverty, politicians, activists, academics will all have to think outside their boxes, will have to start developing much more… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I reached across the aisle to write an economic development bill that addressed… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were all becoming less unequal. Thanks to progressive… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When we look at a perfect cathedral, two different emotions emerge in us: On the one hand, the feeling of admiration for… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“the freedom money gives the poor man is nothing to the freedom money has given the rich man. With money rich men… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
There's an evidence from a number of studies which show that where you grow up and the age at which you move… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
I love the spirit of young girls and women and try to keep that spirit alive in my life and in my… — Kamala Lopez Copy Share Image
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
“Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and… — David duChemin Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that was the lamest argument — that we need some people to be poor in order to remind the… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
“Housing instability is a hallmark of life among the $2-a-day poor. Children experiencing $2-a-day poverty are far more likely to move over… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a… — John Edward Copy Share Image
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“Yet, even then I wasn’t unhappy. We had no objective perception of our own poverty because we had nothing to compare it… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
If you look at it on just a very cold scale, corporations and the government do not care about the poor. So… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People in the individual marketplace should have more options. The plan that we - the discussion draft that we have out, actually… — John Thune Copy Share Image
There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving.… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I think there is a lot of crime caused by desperation, and it doesn't mean that people commit crime because they're poor,… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image