“The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don’t have to ask… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“A government that fails to eradicate poverty is a worthless government, even if it does everything else right, because a poor person… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty; richness with unhappiness is not a real richness!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics …… — John Pintard Copy Share Image
“Disease is certainly not a sin. And poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God’s work… — Katie J. Davis Copy Share Image
She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Let us be dissatisfied as long as we have a wealth of creeds and poverty of deeds.” — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
I believe we should appoint a cabinet-level position that will be solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
“You must choose what you do with your time. You must not just do things because everybody is doing them.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. — Homer Copy Share Image
Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image