“A cultural chasm between the giver and the given-to made many of the poorest unwilling to ask for help: if bread, clothing,… — Sarah Wise Copy Share Image
Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
There is no poverty where there is character, and no wealth or honor where character is missing. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
“The poor man, whose intentions were so quickly imagined for him because of the way the light hits his skin.” — Stacey Lee Copy Share Image
The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
People don't need to become more aware of poverty—they need to know how to end it, — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
“In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. To” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A garment of poverty in nt my size frm this day on forth God has made me a rich nigga — Akamnonu Daniel Copy Share Image
Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If the experts are right in their calculations, then we face the prospect of millions of people retiring into poverty from the… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living — Yiddish Proverb Copy Share Image
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the dread that seems to lie beneath the fear of equalizing. Equity is seen as dispossession. Local autonomy is… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“It is unpardonable for you to leave this world without recording some greatness in your account.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“American humorist Kin Hubbard said , "It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be". The meanest eating… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I recognize that individuals and organizations with tremendous financial clout and open access to the political system in the post-Citizens United era,… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart. — Sam Rayburn Copy Share Image
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
