In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club… — Lou Reed 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
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer. — William Maxwell 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
Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap… — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
“Take this short time that you have on earth and convert it into greatness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.” — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving.… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that… — Niall Ferguson 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
We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in.… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet… — Margaret Catley-Carlson Copy Share Image
Every other word out of every other Chinese mouth is "development, development, development, development." And that's what they're talking about it -… — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“Everyday 25,000 people die from poverty and hunger. And we have forgotten that they are also human.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Any do-gooder can save one life or a dozen by spending x dollars, but that doesn't demonstrate anything unless you've got x… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty. — Sangharakshita Copy Share Image
Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“When your race on earth is finally over and your time has completely disappeared, what will continue to live on in the… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
