I was a kid who only played football barefoot on the streets of Sao Goncalo, close to poverty and crime. — Vinicius Junior Copy Share Image
If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves. — Scott Aaronson Copy Share Image
The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage. — John Hickenlooper 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
It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and… — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
“When the agents of public health lament the fact that poor black women breastfeed too little and conceive too much, they forget… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Employers were quick to perceive the relationship between poverty and the chance to earn handsome profits.” — Michael Perelman Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“You must understand that all great things come through time conversion.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered… — Gerald F. Lieberman Copy Share Image
Mr. Macri's government caused damage similar to what Argentina suffered in 2001: a debt default, no foreign-currency reserves, a steep devaluation and… — Alberto Fernandez Copy Share Image
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We… — Stephen Nichols Copy Share Image
I think, for me, the biggest issue is poverty in general, poverty in this time of plenty. It's reflected in homelessness. It's… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
“Two poor together are richer than one poor because they can somehow help each other!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“To invest your time is to convert it into some products that could benefit humanity.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“Poverty’s a chilly theme,” he said; “let’s take something to warm us before we go on with the variations.” — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
