If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Republicans need to define and present specific policies on how to eradicate poverty, help every child achieve a quality education, and lower… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that.… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“In the vast library of socialist theory, and in all of Marx’s compendious works, there is not a chapter devoted to the… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“What keeps a poor child in Appalachia poor is not what keeps a poor child in Chicago poor—even if from a distance,… — Ijeoma Oluo Copy Share Image
I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Paul says in Philippians 4:19, 'And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.' Our… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through… — Park Chung-hee Copy Share Image
Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
While easy to understand, the income-based poverty line has limitations. Specifically, the median monthly household income measures only income without considering assets. — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul. — Pamela Moore Copy Share Image
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
“To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
