we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The best way to convert your time into products is through the power of isolation.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
“Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just… — Josh Bernstein Copy Share Image
From closing the digital divide to after-school activities and eating well, we cannot afford to ignore the link between deprivation and underachievement. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country. — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
“Her poverty was naked on the empty streets, and if no one walked abroad she felt all the more ghastly, like a… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I recognize that individuals and organizations with tremendous financial clout and open access to the political system in the post-Citizens United era,… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind,… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image