“Maybe your college professor taught that the legacy of colonialism explains Third World poverty. That’s nonsense as well. Canada was a colony.… — Walter Williams Copy Share Image
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Business is about problem-solving, but it does not always have to be about maximizing profit. When I went into business, my interest… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
“The lords themselves are responsible for making the poor people their enemy. They do not want to remove the cause of insurrection,… — Thomas Müntzer Copy Share Image
On both sides of my family, my grandparents grew up in total poverty and came to California during the Great Depression. The… — Katie Hill Copy Share Image
“Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135… — Wang Shaoguang Copy Share Image
I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Hearing the statistic that one in four children in Scotland suffer from poverty just made me think that if there is even… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are. — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease. — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York. — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image