“We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers,… — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
“Before I was married, I thought the sound of bangles jangling on my forearms would be delightful. I looked forward to being… — Phoolan Devi Copy Share Image
“I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When President Mbeki said, if you get AIDS, you can have a shower and it goes away. It's like, oh, come on.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter,… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
There are people in poverty who, if they have the gumption, say, "I'm leaving here. I'm gonna take three jobs and make… — Alan Sparhawk Copy Share Image
Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each… — Peter Eigen Copy Share Image
Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray… — Peter York Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick… — Sarah Kendzior Copy Share Image
What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The ‘population problem’ has been seen as something that happens in the Indian countryside or a Nairobi slum. It is cited as… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“I grew up in extreme poverty,’ said Hari Das. ‘Like me, my father was a day labourer, who also did theyyam during… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
In the global millennium goals, we're on track to beat and eliminate severe poverty. So there are lots of positive trends. I… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
