Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Water is the key to dealing with the twin challenges of poverty and growth. — Sunita Narain Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly… — Ellen Cushing Copy Share Image
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream — Harry Kemp Copy Share Image
He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets). — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
You don't need to come from poverty to say growing up is tough. You can have everything in the world going for… — Justin Chatwin Copy Share Image
“All POOR wish to become RICH, BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR.” — shaikh mustafa Copy Share Image
The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What's important to recognize is that in the U.S. today, tens of millions of kids start life on a uneven playing field.… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one-… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In a very real way, the poor are our teachers. They show us that people’s value is not measured by their possessions… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“In order to become great, one must understand the secret of time conversion.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men… — Anwarul Karim Chowdhury Copy Share Image
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs:… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Poverty is nothing but getting up every morning from dirt and going to bed every night with mud. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view.… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
“There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
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