Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Everybody potentially can be great. It is not only some few people who could be great.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When you are able to create values in yourself or in others then you have won the race.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Poor people are subject to fancies — this is a provision of nature.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal… — Ron Cooper Copy Share Image
Poverty should not accumulate to just absence of food: Sometimes its the absence of our ability to ignore other irrelevant desires. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
“To reproduce your life is to convert it into tangible products for the benefit of humanity. To reproduce your life is to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Enterprise zones have succeeded in attracting needed capital to our urban poverty centers. Businesses and investors that wouldn't otherwise give these blighted… — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
“With a well-organized life, you have a higher chance of success and excellence in your area of calling and whatever you find… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor… — Belinda Alexandra Copy Share Image
To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
“Quite rapidly Etta became acquainted with the realities of poverty in one of its loneliest forms -- that of the poor middle-class… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Under the regime of neoliberalism, individual responsibility becomes the only politics that matters, and serves to blame those who are susceptible to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I lived in a really poor neighbourhood and in our street, my family is one of the poorest. Sometimes the landlord would… — Victor Osimhen Copy Share Image
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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