To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Being a single mom, I fought my way through living in poverty, feeling like I wasn't ever enough, feeling an annoying tug… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. — Joseph Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squatter camp.Matsime Simon Mohapi” — Matsime Simon Mohapi Copy Share Image
I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“There is no one who was supposed to come to this world and leave empty.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war,… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
As policy makers, Congress has the power to promote public policies that economically empower single parents and drastically reduce childhood poverty. — Marc Veasey Copy Share Image
“poor. They argue that greater economic equality is a matter of simple justice that governments should enforce. We certainly agree with the… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“Finish the most important tasks and stop wasting time on irrelevant activities.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of… — Benjamin Hooks Copy Share Image
Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better.… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you… — Laura Chinchilla Copy Share Image
“Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of… — Peter Thomas Bauer Copy Share Image
“One would hope that if the world woke up to such a reality, it would swiftly acknowledge and respond to the disaster—but… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image