The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
When a mom or dad can stop worrying about where they will lay their head each night they can start climbing back… — Charlie Baker Copy Share Image
It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“The poorest in America are the sickets. Poor people can't afford preventive care or insurance. The poor don't see doctors. They show… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat.,… — Horace Copy Share Image
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
“But not all its avenues were paved with marble nor all its denizens dwellers in palaces. Men and women of a dozen… — Dave Duncan Copy Share Image
The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music.… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“According to Albert Einstein and Indian Government, Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned; According to me,… — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong… — Horace Copy Share Image
The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty. — James Burnham Copy Share Image
...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
“Be patient, you are in good company. Our Lord Himself, our Lady, the apostles, and countless saints, both men and women, have… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“You will need an evidence to show the world that you didn’t waste your time here on earth. Generations to come should… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“No man has become world's richest man because he wasted his time in the pub in the cinemas watching movies and sports.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
We'd better not speak against misogyny if, in the same breath, we're not also speaking against transphobia and homophobia and racism and… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Fighting poverty is nothing new for the Conservative Party, but during the 1980s the emphasis placed on individualism and prosperity was sometimes… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image