Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too? — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It’s pouring out, it keeps diminishing.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products. Begin to invest your time into your purpose and… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Defeating malaria is absolutely critical to ending poverty, improving the health of millions, and enabling future generations to reach their full potential. — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will… — Martin H. Manser Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“That trip to India, the poverty. No God I can imagine would let that happen. Then I came home and started noticing… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and… — William Galston Copy Share Image
“Screening practices that banned criminality and poverty in the same stroke drew poor families shoulder to shoulder with drug dealers, sex offenders,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is… — John Caird Copy Share Image
“There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
