When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
“There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“...poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know that drunkenness too is not a virtue and that's even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If the experts are right in their calculations, then we face the prospect of millions of people retiring into poverty from the… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
We should not think of poverty eradication as a matter of collecting money and giving it to the poor so much as… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods,… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man… From poverty and obscurity, by labor… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“When people are kept in abject poverty and illiteracy while others grow rich and “develop their personalities” at the former’s expense we… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
In a very real way, the poor are our teachers. They show us that people’s value is not measured by their possessions… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We must be like the fountain or spring that is continually emptying itself of all that it has and is continually being… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge… — Gene Sperling Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my… — Alice James Copy Share Image
“In India, as in other poor countries, we have a line that is invisible and abstract and yet more powerful and pervasive… — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I take from the poor and give to the rich. They just happen to be the same individuals. Poor and stupid before… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
My upbringing has been pushing and pulling my work my whole life. At first it pushed me away, as I sought to… — Clayton James Cubitt Copy Share Image
We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. Its also the case that economic opportunity opened… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and… — Hillary Clinton 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
Education is a protective factor that helps end the cycle of poverty. It empowers the girls not just financially but also emotionally.… — Stephanie Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Why do deprivation, adversity, scarcity, and suffering often produce the best character qualities in us while prosperity, ease, and abundance often produce… — Bianca Olthoff Copy Share Image
The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
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