“Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice… — Sunday Adelaja 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 surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“More than a fifth of our children live in poverty—the second worst of all the advanced economies, putting us behind countries like… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Yet, even then I wasn’t unhappy. We had no objective perception of our own poverty because we had nothing to compare it… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
“Housing instability is a hallmark of life among the $2-a-day poor. Children experiencing $2-a-day poverty are far more likely to move over… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a… — John Edward Copy Share Image
If you look at it on just a very cold scale, corporations and the government do not care about the poor. So… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
“Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and… — David duChemin Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that was the lamest argument — that we need some people to be poor in order to remind the… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
“You are to use this one life to make a difference in your world. You are to invest your time and not… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no… — Jackie Shroff Copy Share Image
It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Each new morn New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds As if it… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran… — Moshe Katsav Copy Share Image
“Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Some got it bad, some got it worse. Life can sometimes look like a curse. So I cry my heart out, let… — Outlandish Copy Share Image
The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed. — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy.… — Madsen Pirie Copy Share Image
I think Americans yearn for other alternatives to peace, than the path our government has currently taken, and perhaps why there is… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image