“So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me ‘arch priestess of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I recognize that individuals and organizations with tremendous financial clout and open access to the political system in the post-Citizens United era,… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor-… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Riches and rank have no necessary connection with genuine gentlemanly qualities. The poor man with rich spirit is in all ways superior… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind,… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“Tsitsi and the rest of the nation who now found themselves degreed and broke, her parents and the parents of the nation… — Panashe Chigumadzi Copy Share Image
As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is… — Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls -… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
This problem will knock on the doors of all of us, whether through uncontrolled and unmanageable migration flows, by means of diseases… — Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla Copy Share Image
The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
In the global millennium goals, we're on track to beat and eliminate severe poverty. So there are lots of positive trends. I… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick… — Sarah Kendzior Copy Share Image
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
“I grew up in extreme poverty,’ said Hari Das. ‘Like me, my father was a day labourer, who also did theyyam during… — William Dalrymple 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
Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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