I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Hearing the statistic that one in four children in Scotland suffer from poverty just made me think that if there is even… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are. — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease. — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York. — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
People think that this concept of GDP is scientific economics, partly because it has a precise number and can be quantified. But… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you -… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“What we discovered was that the only thing wrong with poor people is they don't have any money, which happens to be… — Bill Strickland 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
“I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“It is a central paradox of contemporary parenting, in fact: we have an acute, almost biological impulse to provide for our children,… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“Dreams of changing the world could only be realized by properly investing time into learning.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“It is through hard work that time could be converted into greatness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I mean, you just go down the line, and with any of these issues, it's about rich people staying rich. And using… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but… — Leila Janah Copy Share Image
“Because poverty is a symptom—of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all — Evita Peron Copy Share Image