The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Poor JZ is the perpetual victim. In the case of Nkandla, he was the victim of a 'supply-chain' fiasco; something he knew… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I'm proud of [Big] K.R.I.T., I'm proud that the person that came after me shares so many similar views [as mine]. From… — David Banner Copy Share Image
Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Love is the reason I just keep filling up my little eyedropper, keep filling it up and emptying my ocean one drop… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
“Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never… — Charles Adolphe Wurtz Copy Share Image
The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There was another reason why the dollar's hegemony grew: the intentional impoverishment of America's working class. A cynic will tell you quite… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always:… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
“Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy.… — Madsen Pirie Copy Share Image
I think Americans yearn for other alternatives to peace, than the path our government has currently taken, and perhaps why there is… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed. — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
“If you really want to buy greatness with time, you must invest the quality amount of time into your purpose and land… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Invest your life into what you were born to do. Make every minute of your life count. Redeem every minute of your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“If a state is governed by the principles of reason, poverty and misery are subjects of shame; if a state is not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Loverless and inexpectant of love, I was as safe from spies in my heart-poverty, as the beggar from thieves in his destitution… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image