Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people… — Tran Duc Luong Copy Share Image
The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
One of the things that people aren't aware of is how much progress is being made in eradicating poverty and providing a… — Kathy Calvin Copy Share Image
“When you want to become great, you have to know what to do, I mean you must first determine what you were… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I dont feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“poverty is not a vice, that’s a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that’s… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“As if the parents we were born to weren't always a matter of happenstance: an elbow jostled at a bar, a muscular… — Laura Bogart Copy Share Image
We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies.… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
“The people of Rwanda were not an insignificant black mass living in abject poverty in a place of no consequence. They were… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking]...They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned;… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is our sacred obligation to eliminate the curse of poverty in the shortest possible time. This is non-negotiable for the Republic. — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
“We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty. — David Batstone Copy Share Image
“from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological poverty, which puts… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people. — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on… — Alden Nowlan Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation. — Elliott Bisnow Copy Share Image
My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb… — James McBride Copy Share Image
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. — William James Copy Share Image
“Poverty is rooted in broken relationships, so the solution to poverty is rooted in the power of Jesus' death and resurrection to… — When Helping Hurts Brian Fikkert Copy Share Image
I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
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