If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I did my residency on the South Side of Chicago.We were taking care of people who were incredibly sick and were really… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich,… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
“People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“I came to think of poverty of speech as a reflection of the richness of the mind, giving it time to explore… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain.… — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
“Children, however magical, are not immune to their parents; and as the prejudices and world-views of adults began to take over their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“a basic income is arguably more justified by the need for economic security than by a desire to eradicate poverty. Martin Luther… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
I learned that unless you start working, if you're frozen out of work, you will never learn the habits, the discipline, the… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people… — Muhammad Yunus 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
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
“Do not avoid doing what you love because you fear that it will only result in poverty or lack. If you fear… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
For many food poverty is the product of a toxic combination of low wages, austerity economics, spiralling food prices and lengthy delays… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door -… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black… — Kathleen Blanco 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
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
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
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
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
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
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image