“Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates… — Edward Glaeser Copy Share Image
Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Even a mouldy crust of bread may be riches beyond computing. Even a cellar stocked with gold may be poverty beyond relief.” — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
“You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“Tsitsi and the rest of the nation who now found themselves degreed and broke, her parents and the parents of the nation… — Panashe Chigumadzi Copy Share Image
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is… — Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote… — Chiranjeevi Copy Share Image
“He felt that flush of antagonism a poor man feels for a rich woman who is in some way asserting her superiority… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Could You please take me away from this poverty. I cant bear anymore. This was uttered by a small little child in… — Vino Copy Share Image
“To truly be better than your past self, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours and you must invest so… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If you oppress poor people, you insult the God who makes them; but kindness shown to the poor is an act of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made… — Ving Rhames Copy Share Image
“You must realize that whenever you waste a second you are wasting life. If you waste a minute, you have wasted life… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“Even though God has given the gift of time to all men equally, it is what each man does with this equal… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That's something I've understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have… — Seneca Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“Whether you convert that diminishing life into something or you don’t convert it to anything is up to you. The life will… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A poor man is shunned by all his relatives - how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursues them… — Bible Copy Share Image
People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“You can leave your mark in the sand of history just by discovering the secrets of greatness through time conversion.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
