Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Her gloves, as Razumihin noticed, were not merely shabby but had holes in them, and yet this evident poverty gave the two… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
“We each have the choice in any setting to step back and let go of the mindset of scarcity. Once we let… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself.… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“This is the meaning of poverty: when you have nothing better to do than to hate somebody who, just exactly like yourself,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!" Mike kept on going but Mitchell… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The monk assumes a robe, changes his name, shaves his head, enters a cell and takes a vow of poverty and chastity;… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St.… — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our… — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even in the era of the first black president, racism is still the most intractable issue in USA. Regarding poverty, half of… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
“All over the world there are students, teachers and parents that face serious challenges every day. They need help with real problems… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out… — Park Geun-hye Copy Share Image
The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white,… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
![“No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.” quote by John Kenneth Galbraith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dfb/john-kenneth-galbraith-643_antidote_no-solution-to-the-problem-of-poverty-is_2941126.jpg)
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