“The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“The assistant director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Hyman Bookbinder, in a frank statement on December 29, 1966, declared that the… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one-… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“In our day, this global offensive plays a well-defines role. Its aim is to justify te very unequal income distribution between countries… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
People do make considered choices about whether they want to fight, and how, and they do so from disparate circumstances. But I… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments,… — William James Copy Share Image
Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“However, it still has a backward agricultural sector of 62 per cent of the people, where there are farmer suicides because of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“There are no poor people. No homeless," he said suddenly. "No," Helen replied. "Everyone has what they need here." "But how could… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
“Countless aid organizations and governments are convinced that they know what poor people need, and invest in schools, solar panels, or cattle.… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty… — Reverend Ike Copy Share Image
I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“The ending of war, the resolution of poverty, the creation of a material abundance unseen in history to meet human needs, the… — Tzm Team Copy Share Image
“I predict a bad end for your race, humans,’ Zoltan Chivay said grimly. ‘Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It seems jolly on the page. But imagine poverty, violence, natural disasters, or political fear driving you away from everything you know.… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We… — Stephen Nichols Copy Share Image
Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a… — Pope Clement VIII Copy Share Image
Heavenly_heather Sometimes, I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice in the world when he could be doing… — Salaudeen Babatunde Copy Share Image
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children… — Henry George Copy Share Image
If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
“John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society.… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
I think Scotland's got its own issues, in some ways similar to Northern Ireland with sectarianism, which has been a long-running sore.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“For I was hungry, while you had all you needed. I was thirsty, but you drank bottled water. I was a stranger,… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
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