Part of what depresses me so much about football is that it's so clearly about exploiting people, most of them poor boys… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on… — Leon Louw Copy Share Image
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My johns adored and worshipped me, therefore they empowered me. When I was 18, 19, and 20, I had a poor self-image… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ...… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
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We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
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The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
Have a great compassion for people. To be able to have a heart full of compassion, we need to pray. Especially be… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many… — Jules Massenet Copy Share Image
I'd like to get to a point where I am not considered natural by myself. When I say that I mean that… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine,… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Bishops of the Philippines have asked that this year be set aside as the ‘Year of the Poor.’ I hope that… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
There are different varieties and forms of capitalism. There are priorities within the capitalist society so that you can have countervailing forces… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The poor get worked, the rich get richer, The world gets worse, do you get the picture? The poor gets dead, the… — J-Live Copy Share Image
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
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