“Only men who have invested time to become the best in what they do are fit to sit and dine with great… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
“When Americans find out I grew up in the tenements, the question they invariably ask me is “how did you end up… — Susan Lynn Peterson Copy Share Image
“With the power of solitude, you can actually take up a decision to invent anything.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Man, people don' need no monster to make 'em do evil-hearted shit. All it take is a brown face, or somebody wearin'… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“We have got into the habit of admiring colossal bandits, whose opulence is revered by the entire world, yet whose existence, once… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
We offer a better way for dealing with persistent poverty in this country. A way that shows poor Americans the world beyond… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“It is either you are converting time into a product or into a value chain or you are killing, wasting and throwing… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I think poor folks are the only people who cannot afford - financially and otherwise - to be sick. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.” — Ninotchka Rosca Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
“A person living at the poverty line in the U.S. belongs to the richest 14% of the world population; someone earning a… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“Do not watch your life melt away just like that for life is too precious to waste it doing nothing.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Taking bold climate action now has the potential to unleash the full power of business and at the same time lift millions… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
