And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I believe that what I've worked for - women and children, civil rights against poverty, trying to level the playing field for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels like a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has… — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
“You win in life when you are able to convert all your disappearing time or the disappearing life into products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image