There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
“Without solitude, we cannot fix the scattered pieces of our plans, hopes, wishes together.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Stop wasting time, start investing time for that is the only way to greatness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
“It is my desire that you consider the advice I am rendering here; that you should no longer sell your life but… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“..but when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate… — Dean Karlan Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are “those people.” The truth is…we are the others. Most of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I came from a background where I was very poor growing up but I have never known poverty. My parents worked hard… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“How in the world can a poor man eat? Pray for the sunshine, ’cause it will rain. Things gettin’ worse, drivin’ all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image