Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Talk to families in poverty and ask them what they need, instead of prescribing it for them. Ask what the barriers are.… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad… — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
There are people in communities who are actually out there fighting poverty eye-to-eye, soul-to-soul, in neighborhoods that actually do well, that succeed.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“life's but a walking shadow ,a poor player who struts and frets his life upon the stage , and then is heard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, the fact remains; he had hope in a better world he could not yet see that overwhelmed the cries of "you… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
“My aim here was much more straightforward and objective — just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“A society should be judged by how we treat the most vulnerable among us, especially children, and that the measure of our… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries… — Ron Sider Copy Share Image
“Recent research is showing that chronic powerlessness—poverty—stunts brain development in perhaps permanent ways that undermine not only school performance but also the… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image
Every child must have a childhood they deserve. But unfortunately, millions of children are deprived childhood and their dreams crushed under the… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
“Since your life evaporates quickly, it is wisdom to learn how to number your days. Not just to number your days but… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism,… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening,… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology?… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that.… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“Instead of exchanging your life for some coins and some pennies, you could actually take charge of your life right now. You… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
“The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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