“In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“I've never understood it,' continued Wilfred Carr, yawning. 'It's not in my line at all; I never had enough money for my… — W.W. Jacobs Copy Share Image
[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The country is in the worst conditions ever in its history. It's unjustifiable that in a country with the largest petroleum reserves… — Henrique Capriles Radonski Copy Share Image
“Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become.… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing its hard to carry on when no one loves you.… — Unknowns Copy Share Image
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The millions of vacationers who came here every year before Katrina were mostly unaware of this poverty. French Quarter tourists were rarely… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
I think President Barack Obama is going to be treated very, very well by history in terms of his ability to save… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“The poor man, a term which means the man who doesn't know how to operate and release the riches of his mind,… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second,… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs -… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Do you find yourself in a dry place today? Don’t look back toward the land of your bondage, or even to the… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
“They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful… — Alan Hassenfeld Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage may poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the American Dream. And… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image