At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are… — Gene Sperling Copy Share Image
For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been… — John Ricard Copy Share Image
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps,… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can,… — Haile Gebrselassie Copy Share Image
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need,… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Mom came from what has been called the poorest place in America - Lake Providence, Louisiana. She was born on the south… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of… — William Booth Copy Share Image
I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries;… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don't have… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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