“WHAT IS GREATER THAN GOD, MORE EVIL THAN THE DEVIL? THE POOR HAVE IT. THE RICH NEED IT. AND IF YOU EAT… — Ernie Lindsey Copy Share Image
“The difference between one person who is living in poverty and another person living in wealth is their understanding of what to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
“when you control for poverty, the students in the U.S. outperform nearly every nation across the globe on these same tests.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
“I grew up in extreme poverty,’ said Hari Das. ‘Like me, my father was a day labourer, who also did theyyam during… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick… — Sarah Kendzior Copy Share Image
Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
“And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury;… — Secundus the Silent Copy Share Image
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
My poverty taught me a lot. If someone dies, I cannot cry as I have seen so much hardship and death. I… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before… — Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham Copy Share Image
It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Since time comes in seconds, in minutes and in hours, we must learn to convert time, else, it will slip away and… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Audiences are demanding more movies like 'Slumdog Millionaire.' Poverty in India is a very important issue that we want to highlight. — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
The government of Macau, of China, has been empirical and pragmatic and has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty,… — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
Psychologically, it's difficult to ever shrug off the effects of extreme hardship or poverty, family bereavement, chronic ill health or the memory… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
“If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot -… — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
“Invest your evaporating life and reap greatness. Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations. Take this short… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
If you want a heart for the poor and the needy of the world, use your money to fight global poverty and… — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
“Whatever your territory is does not matter, what matters is the amount of time you are ready to invest into it to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20… — David Korten Copy Share Image
The hardest problem of all is to appreciate the facts that the poor nations are - quite reasonably - not going to… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“One of the main downsides of not being poor or broke is that you are quick to replace even what can be… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
