What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness. — Charles Best Copy Share Image
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks. — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off.… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Principle #23 - Poverty is a disease of the mind. There is a very contagious disease in our world today and people… — Vincent K. Harris Copy Share Image
“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state… — Patrick Colquhoun Copy Share Image
King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitation workers who were overwhelmingly African-American.… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
You will live to see men arise in power in the Church who will seek to put down your friends and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and… — Harvey Gantt Copy Share Image
Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image
“Creating equality in the society means helping poor to become prosperous and not asking prosperous to become poor.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
You don't need to come from poverty to say growing up is tough. You can have everything in the world going for… — Justin Chatwin Copy Share Image
“When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you’ve been wasting your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My mom grew up in extreme poverty, and always spoke of it with a look of disgust. She felt pressured to fit… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“People who have become great have only become great because they bought that greatness. They purchased that greatness but only through the… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which… — John Danilovich Copy Share Image
“Every man has been called to produce a certain number of products within the time allocated to him to live on earth… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I would rather hide in desolation and poverty, whether it be in the Baseborn Quarters or the Tenantless, than be the cause… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose. — Eric L. Haney Copy Share Image
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa. — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
“The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
When you are running the country it means you work for the poor people. It doesn't mean you siphon off money of… — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
“Sadly, so many people stand and watch their life melt away every day without taking advantage of it to produce something of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
