We should condemn as unjust a global economic order that leads to ever-increasing economic disparities - provided this effect is foreseeable and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
“You are put in school to be trained to become exactly what they want you to be: not them, anything but them.… — craig stone Copy Share Image
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
There are different varieties and forms of capitalism. There are priorities within the capitalist society so that you can have countervailing forces… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The Bishops of the Philippines have asked that this year be set aside as the ‘Year of the Poor.’ I hope that… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
One of the major causes of poverty is a lack of family planning. Governments and nonprofit organizations need to encourage poor people… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I grew up in poverty, so I thought, 'I want to be a billionaire one day. I'll go and work for Donald… — Omarosa Manigault Newman Copy Share Image
It isn't easy for everyone in Germany to make ends meet through well-paid work in Germany. You have to have sufficient skills… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But here a rather remarkable fact comes… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You will live to see men arise in power in the Church who will seek to put down your friends and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitation workers who were overwhelmingly African-American.… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state… — Patrick Colquhoun Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and… — Harvey Gantt Copy Share Image
“Never, never hide your pain, scream as if you are dying so you will not be harmed more. Never, never hide your… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
“A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“Principle #23 - Poverty is a disease of the mind. There is a very contagious disease in our world today and people… — Vincent K. Harris Copy Share Image
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that,… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
“People were selling pyramids of oranges from wooden carts. Powdered milk and sacks of grain sat on the shelves of the little… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
“I can not remember telling my parents that I was studying classics, they might well have found out for the first time… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image