“The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable… — Ernst Engel Copy Share Image
“We would eventually get rid of poverty if there were no women or girls who are willing to sleep with men or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss… — Fawzia Koofi Copy Share Image
“Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there to be… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“The Way of heaven takes away where there's abundance and restores where there's want, but the Way of humankind isn't like that:… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
From Scotland to India, and from Silicon Valley to Kenya, policymakers all over the world have become interested in basic income as… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better.… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my… — Thein Sein Copy Share Image
“The lords themselves are responsible for making the poor people their enemy. They do not want to remove the cause of insurrection,… — Thomas Müntzer Copy Share Image
We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy. — Jerry Doyle Copy Share Image
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Poverty alleviation occurs when the power of Christ's resurrection reconciles our key relationships through the transformation of both individual lives and local,… — Brian Fikkert Copy Share Image
“If you will invest the maximum amount of time in hard work, polishing and building your own land of promise, you will… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ...… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the greatest poverty. Ignorance is death in life. There is no evil so great as ignorance. Folly is an incurable… — John Wortabet Copy Share Image
“When the agents of public health lament the fact that poor black women breastfeed too little and conceive too much, they forget… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Being a single mom, I fought my way through living in poverty, feeling like I wasn't ever enough, feeling an annoying tug… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“Man, people don' need no monster to make 'em do evil-hearted shit. All it take is a brown face, or somebody wearin'… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's own mother Mary escaped the bone-crushing poverty of Scotland's remote Outer Hebrides for the promise of New York in 1929. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. — Democritus Copy Share Image
“God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the… — William MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love. — Jordan Belfort Copy Share Image
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