“You are to use this one life to make a difference in your world. You are to invest your time and not… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
“More than a fifth of our children live in poverty—the second worst of all the advanced economies, putting us behind countries like… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
“Zehrunisa didn’t know Abdul’s age herself. Seventeen was what she’d said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“Poverty drove their parents to have them castrated as young children, hoping they would earn a better living at court. Usually the… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
We must remember that self-reliance and eradication of poverty demands - indeed, compel - the present generation to bear hardship and make… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Laziness can be a value on its own for those who want to show supremacy through contempt for work and wish to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Let's focus on the real causes of violence, poverty and health disparities to heal Baltimore and transform it into a successful and… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know, even vaguely, the difference between physical deprivation and the emotional loss of one’s child, even when you know that… — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
“Poverty is so unfair but, if one prays & create and educate oneself to have assets poverty no longer is the ruler… — Mrs.Tabatha D. Cain, Malik Copy Share Image
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“It is important that any value you add to yourself should be converted to tangible products that could benefit humanity.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“According to a World Report in this issue, more than 60 million people in India were forced below the poverty line by… — The Lancet Copy Share Image
Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned.… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Most people have not become better than they were five years ago because people hardly invest time into improving their knowledge, skills,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“I have observed that in process of becoming ultra rich & famous individual, most of them at later years in life dies… — Aditya Ajmera Copy Share Image
Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
![“Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."” quote by Julianne Malveaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/501/julianne-malveaux-8775_barack_black-child-poverty-is-higher-as-i-write_2034866.jpg)
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