The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
“And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
When President Mbeki said, if you get AIDS, you can have a shower and it goes away. It's like, oh, come on.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There are people in poverty who, if they have the gumption, say, "I'm leaving here. I'm gonna take three jobs and make… — Alan Sparhawk Copy Share Image
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter,… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each… — Peter Eigen Copy Share Image
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers,… — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“If overpopulation or lack of resources created poverty, then Hong Kong should be poor. Hong Kong has 20 times as many people… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
“Before I was married, I thought the sound of bangles jangling on my forearms would be delightful. I looked forward to being… — Phoolan Devi Copy Share Image
With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45… — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Copy Share Image
...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They have shown that problems endemic to poverty—residential instability, severe deprivation, concentrated neighborhood disadvantage, health disparities, even joblessness—stem from the lack of… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
“Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
