Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but… — James Gustave Speth Copy Share Image
I came from poverty and a tough household where we didn't have enough money to really eat, to where I am now.… — LaMarcus Aldridge Copy Share Image
Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Whatever it is you have been called to do, if you will invest time into perfecting it, you will soon be reckoned… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“To become a king of that territory, you must not allow any of your time pass without converting it into building your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education.… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Societies tend to presume that poor people are unable to handle money. If they had any, people reason, the poor and homeless… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally. Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
“Instead of you pouring out your life and giving out your life and exchanging it for a porridge called salary, instead of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are many cases in which gifted children have done great things without special school programs. There are also gifted kids who… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature.” Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
“If we see their (Navajo) lives and festivals as fantastic and our lives as ordinary, we come to writing with a sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I cannot address the issue of visible homelessness and abject poverty on the streets of this community, I will not get… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks… — Elijah Fenton Copy Share Image
I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It's not just a material thing; it's a psychological thing that we… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Red Hook, Brooklyn, is a spit of land jutting out over the New York Harbor and looking across to the gleaming high… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of… — David Bach Copy Share Image
Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply. — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Being born with riches doesn't mean you will be rich, and being born broke doesn't mean you will be poor, life is… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The results have been devastating. Today, more than half of the people in our world live on less than $2 each per… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“To allow your time evaporate each day without a product to show for it is to allow your life evaporate into vanity.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
