“What I remember most of those times is that poverty creates desperation, and desperation creates violence.” — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“You see life is predictable. What you do with your time now will dictate how your life will become tomorrow.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?" — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is wealth, wisdom is treasure, understanding is riches, and ignorance is poverty.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine providence.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I went from just a regular nappy-headed kid in poverty to Amar'e Stoudemire, New York Knicks captain superstar. But there's a lot… — Amar'e Stoudemire Copy Share Image
“You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude. Everything precious comes out of solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“When people began to view their neighborhood as brimming with deprivation and vice, full of “all sorts of shipwrecked humanity,” they lost… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“It’s all about the company you keep, isn’t it, Chief Inspector? Now Mr Trenton, who I know wouldn’t hurt a fly, has… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference; differences in the world will be made — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
You no wins, callin the field up and the drama done build up and this poverty's the cards that they dealed us. — D Block Copy Share Image
I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat. — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
“You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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