“Quite rapidly Etta became acquainted with the realities of poverty in one of its loneliest forms -- that of the poor middle-class… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty;… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
A starving poor child once asked his mother, 'What's Christmas, mom?' The mother replied: 'That's a good question, but I really don't… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character,… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
“And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Our kingdom is not… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
America doesn't have poor people, they have temporarily embarrassed millionaires: meaning there are people who are poor for now but that's all… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
“After his initial homecoming week, after he'd been taken to a bunch of sights by his cousins, after he'd gotten somewhat used… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“The average Egyptian has an income level of around 12 percent of the average citizen of the United States and can expect… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Fear and want are subjective; and poverty is the absence of wealth. If it were promised that from the hour of his… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I lived in a really poor neighbourhood and in our street, my family is one of the poorest. Sometimes the landlord would… — Victor Osimhen Copy Share Image
Under the regime of neoliberalism, individual responsibility becomes the only politics that matters, and serves to blame those who are susceptible to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Taking bold climate action now has the potential to unleash the full power of business and at the same time lift millions… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The number-one reason women say they returned to their abuser is financial insecurity. Often they have kids with them. They say half… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
“The greatest wealth in the world is the wealth of time. There is nothing more precious than the wealth of time. If… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
When we were bringing 'Raisin' onto Broadway, our first stop was at Arena in D.C. Several things struck me about being in… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Congress Mukt Bharat BJP ka naara nahi hai, jan jan ka sankalp hai. Be it dynasty politics, nepotism, corruption, communalism, divisions in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Many skills, as every successful entrepreneur knows, cannot be taught in school. They require doing. Sometimes a life of doing. And where… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“American humorist Kin Hubbard said , "It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be". The meanest eating… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are some people who say that theyre concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I dont think that is a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I began to do documentary photographs of poverty which is very widespread in Indonesia. There's terrible poverty. These are people who have… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
