“As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains had found in… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“Poverty is a human-engineered product per excellence. It results primarily from inequitable distribution of national revenues coupled with escalating levels of corruption… — Moutasem Algharati Copy Share Image
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am poor and feeble, persecuted and vulnerable, Yeshua conquered me, and with the New Man he honored me, He delivered me… — Daniel Zion Copy Share Image
Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes,… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Being a young kid from the hood in Paris, growing up in poverty and then scoring the goal that took Chelsea to… — Demba Ba Copy Share Image
Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
“We residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little - handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
In a state of poverty, illiteracy, people just remain exposed to all kinds of manipulation. That's what we have lived. It's easier… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
“Did poverty in itself lead to moral failings, such as crime? Was "goodness" something that could be objectified and measured? Did society… — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
“When we do those things, we’re actually filling a void in our lives with debt. It’s a slow but sure self-destructive process,… — Celso Cukierkorn Copy Share Image
As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Most of the characters in 'The Little Rascals' were living in poverty, but they decided to focus on the joy of being… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God.… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“If you are generous, you are rich, no matter how little you have; if you are stingy, you are poor, no matter… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease,… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Disease is certainly not a sin. And poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God’s work… — Katie J. Davis Copy Share Image
If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“To measure your time management you must access yourself by how many products you were able to produce on that particular day,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind. — John Gay Copy Share Image
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will… — Martin H. Manser Copy Share Image
Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Defeating malaria is absolutely critical to ending poverty, improving the health of millions, and enabling future generations to reach their full potential. — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
“To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products. Begin to invest your time into your purpose and… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“It’s a pity that majority of people on earth are either not measuring their lives at all or are measuring their lives… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
