...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty?… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
All too easily I have had people dismiss food poverty as an affliction of the workless and idle, insinuating that it is… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
“Time is needed to convert all ideas and added values into the tangible products that benefits the world.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor… — Abdul Qadeer Khan Copy Share Image
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism. — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door -… — Rumi Copy Share Image