Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ...… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously,… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
“Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“It is my desire that you consider the advice I am rendering here; that you should no longer sell your life but… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“You must fight to invest your time into producing products and added value to your generation.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life—it can be a superabundance of interest... — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal. — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
The difference between a rich man and a poor one depends upon the hand whether it gives or receives. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“You must learn focus and concentration for you to enjoy solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
“a basic income is arguably more justified by the need for economic security than by a desire to eradicate poverty. Martin Luther… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
I say to the Christians and to every missionary on the reservations, you're welcome to have a church here if you can… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty-… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
“If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image