Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“..but when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate… — Dean Karlan Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these… — John Prescott Copy Share Image
When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“Housing projects are a great metaphor for the government's relationship to poor folks: these huge islands built mostly in the middle of… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“Recent evidence confirms that retail prices of essential consumer goods in poor countries are not appreciably lower than in the United States… — Vincent A. Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Appalachia teaches us that breaking people out of bad communities has more promise than changing those communities wholesale; that encouraging family stability—or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel I should do everything I can to make a difference in Haiti. My main goal to help the people of… — Noah Munck Copy Share Image
The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Give that your one life your best input so that it could yield the best output in the form of products that… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“It is my desire that you consider the advice I am rendering here; that you should no longer sell your life but… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
Poverty is a trap: it should be eradicated. It's no real answer just lifting a few children from families stuck on low… — Dawn Foster 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
The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty,… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather… — David Ross Copy Share Image
“The danger of procrastination is that it gives you fake impression that you have all the time and makes you forget that… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Women are more focused on the development of the quality of life in their countries. They are more involved in social and… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Life is a race. You are racing against time. Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image