The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.” — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream — Harry Kemp Copy Share Image
“You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“The difference between working for a salary and working for your promise land is that when you work for a salary, you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“But just as legal segregation in the South was a huge national horror hidden in plain view, so too the massive desolation… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality.… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand… — Vitit Muntarbhorn Copy Share Image
I just think that if we are going to call ourselves pro-life, we must also agree that starvation and poverty and disease… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image