The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the… — Elizabeth Harrower Copy Share Image
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
Giving every girl in the world the chance of a healthy, educated, and economically independent life is essential if we are to… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
“Solitude is the greatest treasure and through it, you can rebuild your life, reorder your life and solve life’s problems.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy -… — Jerry Doyle Copy Share Image
Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Mostly out of step, young people, especially poor minorities and low-income whites, are increasingly inscribed within a machinery of dead knowledge, social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If… — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
Let no man's place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man's low condition or poverty abase him. For… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“This time of year," she said, "people’s consciences gnaw at them. They give away truckloads of canned goods and quote Dickens and… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
“...the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)” — Mev Puleo Copy Share Image
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
“To work for salary is to give out your life for little compensation.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“My aim here was much more straightforward and objective — just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
“Why, then, make a show of the poverty of our life and our sad imperfection, unearthing people from the backwoods, from remote… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children… — Maxine Hancock Copy Share Image
.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
