“Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty, socialism sends them back.” — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.” — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Greatness is the quality of time you are able to invest into your purpose.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
“Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of… — Dave Lindorff Copy Share Image
“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“According to the World Values Survey, while 60 percent of Europeans say they think “the poor are trapped in poverty,” only 29… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our lives are a picture of what we ought to do, what we need to do, what we are planning to do… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It's not just a material thing; it's a psychological thing that we… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“My honey child, them housing projects Cannot contain her multitudes A sunbeam, hard upon her Just a fly strugglin’ through her braid… — Valentine Xavier Copy Share Image
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people… — Eli Broad 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
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of… — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image
Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge, posing an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries… — Ron Sider Copy Share Image
He [Hugo Chavez] put poverty at the heart of political debate. Rightly so, given the country's immense inequality and poverty. He invested… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image