The South Bronx has long been ground zero for racially concentrated poverty. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas. — Ernesto Sirolli Copy Share Image
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent. — Douglas Lenat Copy Share Image
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes,… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
“As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains had found in… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“Poverty is a human-engineered product per excellence. It results primarily from inequitable distribution of national revenues coupled with escalating levels of corruption… — Moutasem Algharati Copy Share Image
Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“There are millions of people who believe themselves “doomed” to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“We're not as free and independent as we thought. Street-level work that disrupts the infrastructure (the sewer system below or the electrical… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute,… — Menno Simons Copy Share Image
The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still… — Daniel S Greenberg Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Which statements are true according to the passage? A) Science, governments, and your doctor should be trusted. B) 'Comforting her deep into… — Tupelo Hassman Copy Share Image
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
I trained myself not to want things, because I thought I'd always be poor. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
“The first thing you want to do to become great is to discover your area of calling.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land... — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
You're not poor because you don't have money. You're poor if you don't have a dream. — Randy Gage Copy Share Image
Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly). — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“The question most people do not ask themselves is what they could do with their time to make it productive.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
“The starting point for greatness is to know what to do with your life.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously. — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich. — Martial Copy Share Image
The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image