All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a… — Pope Clement VIII Copy Share Image
If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Heavenly_heather Sometimes, I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice in the world when he could be doing… — Salaudeen Babatunde Copy Share Image
“If we’re all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we come… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
I think so much of my life had me growing up under extreme poverty and really challenging conditions, with having the police… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If you want to be among the few who rule the world, you, therefore, must learn to convert every time of your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“However, it still has a backward agricultural sector of 62 per cent of the people, where there are farmer suicides because of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“The ending of war, the resolution of poverty, the creation of a material abundance unseen in history to meet human needs, the… — Tzm Team Copy Share Image
The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I predict a bad end for your race, humans,’ Zoltan Chivay said grimly. ‘Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“It seems jolly on the page. But imagine poverty, violence, natural disasters, or political fear driving you away from everything you know.… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We… — Stephen Nichols Copy Share Image
“There are no poor people. No homeless," he said suddenly. "No," Helen replied. "Everyone has what they need here." "But how could… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
“Countless aid organizations and governments are convinced that they know what poor people need, and invest in schools, solar panels, or cattle.… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty… — Reverend Ike Copy Share Image
'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor,… — William Law Copy Share Image
We cannot eliminate poverty without enabling developing countries to engage more people in economic activity that use natural resources, and we cannot… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“life itself is a form of suffering. The rich suffer because of their riches. The poor suffer because of their poverty. People… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
![“The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man…” quote by George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fa5/george-bernard-shaw-68_another-man_the-thief-who-is-in-prison-is-not-necess_3079501.jpg)
