We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working. — Mick Cornett Copy Share Image
“Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.” — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
“For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first understand that time is life and life is time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“...poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know that drunkenness too is not a virtue and that's even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel! — R. G. LeTourneau Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator. — Virginia H. Pearce Copy Share Image
“Poverty is not a natural conclusion. It is an intervention. We are not poor because we are inferior as a group of… — Frances Varian Copy Share Image
“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members.… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure... — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“To many an upright poor person, it seems needless to invent a god who will wash the feet of beggars and exalt… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government; but the communism of combined wealth and capital, the… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the… — Mamphela Ramphele Copy Share Image