Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ).… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal our sick political system.… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share Image
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters;… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The problem in Peru is not so much poverty - it is inequality. The essence of the discourse in 2005 and 2006… — Ollanta Humala Copy Share Image
“Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when people die. Yet, poverty is about… — P Sainath Copy Share Image
What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important… — Shakira Copy Share Image
“humans,’ Zoltan Chivay said grimly. ‘Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“I don’t see anything ingenious about poverty like this. I don’t see anything ingenious about having ten children when you can’t afford… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“...[A] lot of them, without even understanding the cause, just give up. They take what they can-mostly in pleasure,and they make the… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance,… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I think I was meant to be a musician who speaks his mind about social justice issues. And I grew up in… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The notion about education has changed and that now it’s sort of much more aligned with, “Well, schools can’t combat poverty. We… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
“In India, about half of all poor households do not have a BPL (below-poverty-line) card and about one-third of the non-poor (under… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
“Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to his own. Because it’s easier… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what… — Cheri Huber Copy Share Image
I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Childbearing, I mean, if there's no place to go to deliver your baby, then you're the one that's delivering in those unhealthy… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are… — Tommy Makem Copy Share Image
Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“Humanity will be better served when those in power, privileged and keepers of it's flame realize that poverty is not a crime… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“Twelve years ago we characterized the scene as poor service, no service, or self-service. Unfortunately, little has changed. As a result, customers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations,… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
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