The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too. — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia. — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
There are so many kids in this country growing up in poverty, facing very, very hard challenges... We need resilience for all… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
People who are denied access to power are also denied the opportunity to make or influence decisions to live a better life… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Poverty among naturalized immigrants—that is, those who have become U.S. citizens—is lower than poverty among native-born Americans.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being… — Mary Crow Dog Copy Share Image
“The contrast was startling: the beauty of the ridges against the poverty of the people who lived between them. There were some… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam,… — Kaspar Hauser Copy Share Image
God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they are poor, but because poor… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
“When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you’re working at the margins. When… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“Losing your home and possessions and often your job; being stamped with an eviction record and denied government housing assistance; relocating to… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated. — Benjamin Mkapa Copy Share Image
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the… — James Payn Copy Share Image
We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease. — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been… — Vijay Singh Copy Share Image
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics… — Swanee Hunt Copy Share Image
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall… — Robert Mugabe 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
“I hadn't realized what a transformation had taken place while I had been in Uganda, the spiritual richness I had experienced in… — Katie J. Davis Copy Share Image
God sends us the poor to try us… And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“The whole world will stand still to give you a way to the top if you practice the rule of ten thousand… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Not every poor or unemployed person who has one wears a political party’s t-shirt to reveal their political affiliation; some use it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image