Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“A variation on this strategy was implicit in a new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Every single thing can change for the better, no matter however hard it is. Even a family in utter poverty can become… — Tarun Sharma Copy Share Image
“I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that dead men are still impacting the world while men who are still alive are wasting away, roaming… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
“Through silent alleys where dark shadows fleeted past them like forest beasts on the prowl; through bustling market-places where bloaters predominated, into… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
“If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Yes, we have to seek redemption! Redemption from the divisive politics based on caste and religion, redemption from the corruption which is… — Madhu Vajpayee Copy Share Image
While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on… — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
“You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King… — William Steig Copy Share Image
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“It is better to purposefully spend time with people talking about things that could improve them or talk about things that could… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The factory work that lifted millions out of poverty in places like China and Vietnam probably did cost some workers in North… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Whenever you make up your mind to go into solitude, you must decide first of all what you want to go and… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness. — Herodotus 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
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
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
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
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
