“You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.” — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I think actually under scrutiny, Hillary's [Clinton] promotion of equal wages at poverty level and of healthcare for children but not for… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful,… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Only through the conversion of time can territories be conquered.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away… — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for… — John Sweeney 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
Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I understood it was a poor area when I was young because you're driving through it and you see these low-income homes… — Joe Burrow Copy Share Image
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image