Women are 1/2 the world population but 3/5 of those living in extreme poverty. — Minka Kelly Copy Share Image
“Your greatness is directly proportional to how much time you are ready to invest into fulfilling your purpose.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The poor man's revenge is that happiness cannot be inherited” — Angelos Michalopoulos Copy Share Image
Ms. Merkel is avoiding retirement issues. She simply doesn't want to do anything, although she knows that doing nothing means that real… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major… — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
“The monk assumes a robe, changes his name, shaves his head, enters a cell and takes a vow of poverty and chastity;… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in… — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“Persuading everyone to behave decently to each other because the society is so fragile is a worthy goal, but it may be… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The most obvious manifestation of the affordable housing crisis is in rising rents. Between 1900 and 2013, rents rose faster than inflation… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent… — Alberto Fujimori Copy Share Image
His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime. — James Reston, Jr Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone. Since life comes just… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often,… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
“Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.” — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Hard work is one of the greatest principles which I have carefully guided my life by.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I don’t believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That’s bullshit. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“We shall be rich with all the more comfort, if we once learn how far poverty is from being a burden” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“if we were lucky enough to be living a good life, we should recognize this gift and thank God for it by… — John Wood Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest health problems facing America's poor is obesity. You know you live in a good place when overeating is… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
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