Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed. — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
“Hunger takes away what you are. Everything we were was just nothing then.” — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
A poor nation, but with rich politicians, shows the exceptional care of the latter for the ruling people! — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Value time and convert it into greatness by investing it into learning and researching all that you can.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries… — Ron Sider Copy Share Image
“Recent research is showing that chronic powerlessness—poverty—stunts brain development in perhaps permanent ways that undermine not only school performance but also the… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image
“Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Since your life evaporates quickly, it is wisdom to learn how to number your days. Not just to number your days but… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Talk to families in poverty and ask them what they need, instead of prescribing it for them. Ask what the barriers are.… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty?… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
“consumed books about social policy and the working poor. One book in particular, a study by eminent sociologist William Julius Wilson called… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“The number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being… — Mary Crow Dog Copy Share Image
