“--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Not every poor or unemployed person who has one wears a political party’s t-shirt to reveal their political affiliation; some use it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
“She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope… — Madhu Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective. — Lewis Thompson Preston Copy Share Image
Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Let's focus on the real causes of violence, poverty and health disparities to heal Baltimore and transform it into a successful and… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
If the population curve is on an exponential growth, and the resources are on an exponential decline, what happens first is you… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way… — Confucius Copy Share Image
It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police… — Warren Ballentine Copy Share Image
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to… — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
“Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We have never seen the isolation of the rich to the degree that we see it now. They're global. They travel all… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I came from poverty and a tough household where we didn't have enough money to really eat, to where I am now.… — LaMarcus Aldridge Copy Share Image
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. — Horace Copy Share Image
Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
