Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty."… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time. Tragically, though, it is that same time that is often least treasured… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila… — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
Homeless people living in a poor country - by acceptable means, is common almost unavoidable. Homeless people living in a rich one,… — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
There are people in poverty who, if they have the gumption, say, "I'm leaving here. I'm gonna take three jobs and make… — Alan Sparhawk Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of… — Benjamin Hooks Copy Share Image
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has… — George Canning Copy Share Image
These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“When poor people hear a loud noise, they whip their heads around. Wealthy people finish their sentences, then just glance back.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Putting women first would mean strengthening America's social safety net, because a higher proportion of single-mother families live in poverty here than… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I think, for me, the biggest issue is poverty in general, poverty in this time of plenty. It's reflected in homelessness. It's… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
To become rich in no time is very easy. The only thing you have to do is to look at those who… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“we sometimes fail to recognize the signs of poverty, loneliness, grief, fear, and desolation in our own city, our own village, or… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“... when a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and… — Menander Copy Share Image
As a poor person and someone who now writes extensively about social and economic justice, I've often noticed a lack of a… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Most elderly are retirees with relatively low incomes. But some may possess assets, and they will be classified as poor. As such,… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
