When I go across the country, whether it's Albuquerque, New Mexico, whether it's Birmingham, Alabama or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there are always forces… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“It may be that some disadvantaged kids who get into trouble suffer not solely from poverty or neglect, say those who hold… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The poor is the central focus of my economic agenda. The poor should be strengthened in such a way that they get… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of… — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death,… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was bumped off unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell was bumped off unjustly, they took my title unjustly, they killed Megers… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
“They have shown that problems endemic to poverty—residential instability, severe deprivation, concentrated neighborhood disadvantage, health disparities, even joblessness—stem from the lack of… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“At the root of capitalism poverty one always finds unemployment and underemployment what Mark called the industrial reserve army which directly deprive… — SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
We come from an abundant, endlessly providing, always forthcoming, always giving source. If we would just stay like that, if we would… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“You Learn (by Jorge Luis Borges) The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs:… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45… — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Copy Share Image
“Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“If overpopulation or lack of resources created poverty, then Hong Kong should be poor. Hong Kong has 20 times as many people… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
![“MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/964/christopher-hitchens-117_cures_mt-mother-teresa-was-not-a-friend-of-the_3074896.jpg)
