“If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“If you knew that your time is your life, you would protect it as much as you protect your life.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation... to enable governments to engage in a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who… — Andrew Mwenda Copy Share Image
“To truly invest your time into doing what you were born to do, you should be running away from jobs not running… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning. — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher. — Harry Wong Copy Share Image
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
“…poverty is not interesting, either to the poor or to the rich. It is the curse of the decent poor to be… — Earl Shorris Copy Share Image
“Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So maybe, perhaps,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance. — Francis Keppel Copy Share Image
Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty,… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together. — Marc Forne Molne Copy Share Image
It is our sacred obligation to eliminate the curse of poverty in the shortest possible time. This is non-negotiable for the Republic. — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
“FEARS AND doubts repel prosperity. Abundance cannot get to a person who holds such a mental attitude. Things that are unlike in… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
