Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water. — Rose George Copy Share Image
“Yes, helping the poor helps keep them stuck in poverty. As Jesus said, 'Tough love thy neighbor as thyself, get your own… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“So the way to control your life is this; every minute you live, maybe you are in church; ask yourself “why am… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil,… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped. — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“A live dog is better than a dead lion, but death is preferable to poverty.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task; it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction –… — Nic Marks Copy Share Image
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A lot of people abroad know Lula's campaigns against poverty and hunger, but he had a tremendous legacy in education too. He… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty. — Kevin Harrington Copy Share Image
Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
I did not experience language deprivation. I did have access to language and communication, ever since I was a little kid. — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I just think that if we are going to call ourselves pro-life, we must also agree that starvation and poverty and disease… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
The American free enterprise system is the greatest tool to lift people out of poverty ever created in human history and when… — Markwayne Mullin Copy Share Image
It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is… — John Caird Copy Share Image
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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