Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for… — Gbenga Akinnagbe Copy Share Image
Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable… — Peng Liyuan Copy Share Image
Poor people are much more daring than the rich ones, a rich one is so fearful that he move with body guards… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
We learned that kicking down doors to free children from carpet factories isn't enough to stop child labour - we had to… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Poverty will make the best people bad, if it gets hard enough. Why there’s so much of it in the world, I’m… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
We want to end poverty and protect our environment. But we think the most efficient way of achieving that is to change… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, poverty means death: lack of food and housing, the inability to attend properly to health and education needs,… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
“They went on living in poverty, though they were no longer in need, but they were set in their ways, and they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“Does affirmative action place minority students in colleges where they're likely to fail while depriving other applicants of the chance to attend… — William Voegeli Copy Share Image
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony… — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to… — Arthur Sheekman Copy Share Image
You're either in a position of abundance or you're in a position of poverty. Now, that's every area of your life. That's… — Paula White Copy Share Image
By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem… — Janet Poppendieck Copy Share Image
“A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yes, helping the poor helps keep them stuck in poverty. As Jesus said, 'Tough love thy neighbor as thyself, get your own… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
The medical protocol for poor people is, if something hurts, get over it. If something hurts real bad, put salve on it. — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
“You were given your life to make it a solution to the problems of the world but it is only through time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Poverty and a lack of education are the tools used to manipulate their minds. They are in prison just like us, only… — Nigel Brennan Copy Share Image
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make… — Bono Copy Share Image
“Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in.… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
“The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)” — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
