What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt… — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People who are less fortunate are the ones with the most possibilities in life the rich will cower in fear eventually by… — Ishtiyaq Khan Copy Share Image
“Poverty suppresses growth in regions of the brain that empower children to do well in school, handle the greater threats they face… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image
“Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“The technocratic illusion is that poverty results from a shortage of expertise, whereas poverty is really about a shortage of rights. The… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
Community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people. If you are financially… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
The poor and needy seek water, but there is none, Their tongues fail for thirst. I, the LORD, will hear them; I,… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image
The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
“Hunger and poverty steal your childhood and take away your innocence and sense of security. But I was one of the lucky… — Saroo Brierley Copy Share Image
Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“if we were lucky enough to be living a good life, we should recognize this gift and thank God for it by… — John Wood Copy Share Image
In the 55-60 years of their rule, the successive Congress government have only looted the country and plunged it into poverty, casteism,… — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for… — Elizabeth Inchbald Copy Share Image
“In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and… — Bible Copy Share Image
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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