This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
My parents, neither one of them went to college. That wasn't available to them. But, you know, we had a wonderful life.… — Tad Devine Copy Share Image
“Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child… — David Cameron 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
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms… — Jeannine Atkins Copy Share Image
In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
We didn't know we were poor because that's how everyone around us lived. — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich,… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends.… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
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
My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty. — Akong Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life... Yet we are rightfully troubled that… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“The world was full of people struggling along with heavy suitcases, poor men dawdling in doorways until they could get their eyes… — Marina Endicott Copy Share Image
Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned.… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and… — Jonathan Kozol 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
Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The ‘population problem’ has been seen as something that happens in the Indian countryside or a Nairobi slum. It is cited as… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The products your life must have could be in the form books you have written from the values you have added to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
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