“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
“Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“In Moscow, priests are in love with their standing. They eat fat meat and preach poverty to the miserable.” — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
I think poor folks are the only people who cannot afford - financially and otherwise - to be sick. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“For you to be great, you must become conscious of what you are doing per time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Poverty alleviation occurs when the power of Christ's resurrection reconciles our key relationships through the transformation of both individual lives and local,… — Brian Fikkert Copy Share Image
The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ...… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have… — Jerome Ringo Copy Share Image
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is… — Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“Tsitsi and the rest of the nation who now found themselves degreed and broke, her parents and the parents of the nation… — Panashe Chigumadzi Copy Share Image
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
