“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
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves” — ben elton Copy Share Image
“If you retreat in response to desire rather than deprivation, the deprivation may never come.” — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squattercamp.” — Matsime Simon Mohapi Copy Share Image
Poor people don't drive the toxic form of economic 'growth' that is destroying our environment. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
“Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
As a young girl growing up in poverty, I know firsthand how much a paycheck from a summer job can make a… — London Breed Copy Share Image
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in… — John Garamendi Copy Share Image
Destiny can be created. Many people who were born into poverty have created a successful, great destiny for themselves. — Babloo Copy Share Image
I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary,… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that,… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
“People were selling pyramids of oranges from wooden carts. Powdered milk and sacks of grain sat on the shelves of the little… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty. — Aesop Copy Share Image
“We are not poor because we do not have money, we are poor because we do not know how to make money.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease. — Samuel Eto'o Copy Share Image
A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it. — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“You must choose what you do with your time. You must not just do things because everybody is doing them.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The world is host to love and hate, peace and war, poverty and luxury. — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
