The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution...… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“So in concrete terms, just how much dumber does poverty make you? “Our effects correspond to between 13 and 14 IQ points,”… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us.… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
“Give a man of prosperity the lack in which a man of poverty has and he will turn it into prosperity. Give… — Tiffany Buckner-Kameni Copy Share Image
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of… — Kathleen Blanco Copy Share Image
When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from… — Benjamin Mkapa Copy Share Image
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“You must begin to live your life by doing a comparative analysis between any two events in your life and making sure… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcry and whose arrival announces to men the season when… — Theognis Copy Share Image
A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in their lives. She also knew she… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“For the love of Christ give me a groat!” in a voice so hoarse and broken that I started, and felt a… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The fact that Anna is somewhere having coffee or a dream is an assault on me. I hate these moments of poverty.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell… Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We know what war means, and we know what poverty means. We need to develop a better model for reaching out to… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter… — Werner Bischof Copy Share Image
“The slum, with its dirt and its queer lives, was first an object-lesson in poverty, and then the background of my own… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
I need to be in charge, and that comes from when I was growing up and money was always an issue. I… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“We have the resources to allow everybody to live with dignity,; we have the technology to do it; what we don't have… — Adriano Bulla Copy Share Image
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“If you desire to be great in life and live a life of no regret the number one thing you should do… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
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