When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the… — Bono Copy Share Image
I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“Being born into a prosperous middle-class family typically endows you with a safety net for life. If you are not naturally very… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“I went to Guatemala to help build a school but left wondering what "help" would really look like... I hadn't prepared myself… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately,… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
“Cung said, “I have researched Vietnamese People fleeing to the land of the Uc da Loi! On the 26th of April 1976,… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We always keep saying, 'We're the best, we're the best.' Other countries offer healthcare for their people. We don't, so how are… — Richard Ojeda Copy Share Image
“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Blobfish, the guy who snapped a hamsters neck, myself, the homeless guy who has never thrown a punch (but has killed a… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness.… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
I grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education -… — Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Copy Share Image
“We know that poverty is unpleasant; in fact, since it is so remote, we rather enjoy harrowing ourselves with the thought of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“No solution will be found by accepting powerlessness or poverty as inevitable, irreplaceable social features. The failure of the system to answer… — Louis D. Lo Praeste Copy Share Image
I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been… — John Ricard Copy Share Image
We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save… — William James Copy Share Image
Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I think Scotland's got its own issues, in some ways similar to Northern Ireland with sectarianism, which has been a long-running sore.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society.… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
“For I was hungry, while you had all you needed. I was thirsty, but you drank bottled water. I was a stranger,… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
![“Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in the rural areas, that's true. But rural America, you can say the same thing, in Appalachia there's an awful lot of poverty and lack of education.” quote by Michael Bloomberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/726/michael-bloomberg-1293_america_go-walk-the-streets-of-beijing-it-s-pret_482884.jpg)
