For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of eternal growth… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
There's an evidence from a number of studies which show that where you grow up and the age at which you move… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience. — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
3 things that I'm extremely allergic to: Racism, Poverty and Bull-shit. — London Mond 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
The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations,… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God… — William Penn Copy Share Image
We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
“Most people on earth are just spending time at work, in school or in church without having anything of value to show… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but… — James Gustave Speth Copy Share Image
I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Since life is in time, since life is in seconds, minutes and hours; that means to waste time is to waste life.… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries. — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty,… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I have witnessed millions of children suffering from the deprivation of basic rights such as the rights to education, the rights… — Choi Si-won Copy Share Image
“In the nearest future, those who understood the value of time will rule over those who trivialized time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about,… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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