Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind. — John Gay Copy Share Image
We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“After deciding the territory you want to rule over, the next thing you must do is to invest your time into developing… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
“Our world is structured in such a way for you not to even know and for you not to even be told… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see… — Henry Cisneros Copy Share Image
I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
“Poverty is no crime; always remember that. After all, why should we despair? Our present difficulties will pass away, and God will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The bigger story was competition causing more productive business enterprises to replace less productive ones...However, it provides even more reason to worry… — William W. Lewis Copy Share Image
