When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears — African Proverb Copy Share Image
“The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.” — Andrew Miller Copy Share Image
If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets, — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health — Thoraya Obaid Copy Share Image
If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“More than a fifth of our children live in poverty—the second worst of all the advanced economies, putting us behind countries like… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
A lot of people abroad know Lula's campaigns against poverty and hunger, but he had a tremendous legacy in education too. He… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
“How does a hardworking sixty-four-year-old-woman end up without a house or a permanent place to stay, relying on unpredictable low-wage work to… — Jessica Bruder Copy Share Image
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“They went on living in poverty, though they were no longer in need, but they were set in their ways, and they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
“Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead... — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Man will always waste time if there is no system to check and compel him to invest his time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. — Lloyd Banks Copy Share Image
Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration. — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
“The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.” — Joan Thomas Copy Share Image
Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
