Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Whose boys are those with the holes in their pants?" I cringed. How would my grandpa answer such an embarrassing question? "Those… — Elizabeth Byler Younts Copy Share Image
You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
There's really no way to break that chain - other than winning the lottery. There's no realistic way to end generational poverty… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members.… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
“The walls were chipped and needed paint. The windows were mostly okay but one pane was blocked with cardboard. There were fleas… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“Better is it', she thought, 'to be clothed with poverty and ignorance, which are the dark garments of the female sex; better… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads,… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
“It is no coincidence that pollution so often accompanies poverty. Imagine a cost-benefit analysis of siting an undesirable facility, such as a… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent.… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
“Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“That trip to India, the poverty. No God I can imagine would let that happen. Then I came home and started noticing… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I say to the Christians and to every missionary on the reservations, you're welcome to have a church here if you can… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality.… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian… — Ed Holder 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
Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand… — Vitit Muntarbhorn Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I would like to see all this as a big joke that is being played upon us, but I have seen what… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“To economists, everything revolves around scarcity - after all, even the biggest spenders can't buy everything. However, the perception of scarcity is… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of humiliation! How… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
