“Poverty can’t rob me of those memories. I have lived in an ideal world that was not deceitful, a world which seems… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the… — Ellen Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
“A Life of poverty is not as bad as it looks through the wealthy person's eye, neither is the life of the… — Shon Mehta Copy Share Image
People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance,… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I'm truly thankful that Life's blows knocked me off the Ivory Tower that so comfortably afforded me the luxury of looking down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's shocking to me still, that children - just because of where they're born - are born into a life of extreme… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“The greatest innovators and history makers of our world were not great because of the formal school system but because of self-development… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man.” — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
When you affect consumption, production falls, and when production falls, employment falls and when unemployment rises, it affects poverty. — Alberto Fernandez Copy Share Image
The typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty: it's someone who has a cash flow problem. — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
This is what I think about poverty: why waste the potential of people? You never know what you've got going in society… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
This idea of, oh, poor little black person, oh, poor little poor person, oh, poor little woman, oh, poor little indigenous person… — Jair Bolsonaro Copy Share Image
The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what color you are. Poverty is poverty. Inmates come from all walks of life. We have to make sure… — David Fizdale Copy Share Image
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
“Society has got a lot of activities and attractions to steal your time and to make you think less about your diminishing… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I know she [Hillary Clinton] comes out of a legacy with her husband in which the Democratic Party did more, it seems… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image