[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity.… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“I would like to see all this as a big joke that is being played upon us, but I have seen what… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“To economists, everything revolves around scarcity - after all, even the biggest spenders can't buy everything. However, the perception of scarcity is… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of humiliation! How… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality.… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian… — Ed Holder Copy Share Image
I just think that if we are going to call ourselves pro-life, we must also agree that starvation and poverty and disease… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand… — Vitit Muntarbhorn Copy Share Image
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I say to the Christians and to every missionary on the reservations, you're welcome to have a church here if you can… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“That trip to India, the poverty. No God I can imagine would let that happen. Then I came home and started noticing… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“It is no coincidence that pollution so often accompanies poverty. Imagine a cost-benefit analysis of siting an undesirable facility, such as a… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent.… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become.… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing its hard to carry on when no one loves you.… — Unknowns Copy Share Image
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The country is in the worst conditions ever in its history. It's unjustifiable that in a country with the largest petroleum reserves… — Henrique Capriles Radonski Copy Share Image
“Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“I've never understood it,' continued Wilfred Carr, yawning. 'It's not in my line at all; I never had enough money for my… — W.W. Jacobs Copy Share Image
[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
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