I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of… — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
“Light's all very well, brothers, but it's not easy to live with.” — Mikhail Zoshchenko Copy Share Image
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of… — David Bach Copy Share Image
I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
“To be effective in fulfilling your goals, you must break them down into little tasks and then spend most of your time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“A thread from everyone, and the naked will have a shirt." There is no beggar but has his thread of cotton, and… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
My wife spent a lot of time on what we do from a civic contribution giving perspective, for a number of years,… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
We must start talking differently about poverty--and start doing something differently. — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“You must know what to do with your time if you must become great in this life. You must know what to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“This book was written so that we may take heed and remold our story. I am certain that when enough of us… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image