“In Moscow, priests are in love with their standing. They eat fat meat and preach poverty to the miserable.” — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Today is International Women's Day, and there's a fantastic set of pieces running by an organization called ONE called "Poverty Is Sexist."… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty.… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“Better is it', she thought, 'to be clothed with poverty and ignorance, which are the dark garments of the female sex; better… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty. — Cedric Richmond Copy Share Image
The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you affect consumption, production falls, and when production falls, employment falls and when unemployment rises, it affects poverty. — Alberto Fernandez Copy Share Image
“Poor people! No territory invasion can broaden their narrow minds.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“You must stop living under the pressure of the environment and surrounding and culture and tradition.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“You were born to convert the evaporating life into some impact on humanity.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
