A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As a child in poverty you never know that you're poor, the slums are the slums. They're home. They're what is. So… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
“to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be… — Dudley North Copy Share Image
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“The common complaint, that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people, and that the labouring poor will not… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of our social ills are directly related to poverty, not that people of higher status don't have problems, but they… — Ashley Biden Copy Share Image
A hungry mind is not free, and I felt if we were really going to make a difference and fight poverty we… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The kids who take up athletics actually come from modest to poor backgrounds. They make it on their own steam; some of… — Dutee Chand Copy Share Image
Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“they asked the poor what it was like to be poor, the hungry what it was like to be hungry, the homeless… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need comprehensive immigration reform so that we're not creating this cycle of poverty and depression and everything that comes with separating… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
“your poverty is serving no one. If you’re a charitable person, you’d be a whole lot more charitable if you had lots… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“To truly invest your time into doing what you were born to do, you should be running away from jobs not running… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“We are asked to orient our “strategies” and “tactics” around poverty and material immiseration at a time when revolutionary sentiment is being… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my… — Zhang Zai Copy Share Image
The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
“If you must make your time productive, then begin to view time in its most urgent form; in seconds and in minutes.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks. — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
