The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
“Never, never hide your pain, scream as if you are dying so you will not be harmed more. Never, never hide your… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“To own something and not be aware of it could not only be annoying, but fatal too. That is why most people… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to… — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
“It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defenselessness, destitution. A squalid… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million… — Rajiv Shah Copy Share Image
...stand with me today and pledge to work for an America that doesn't ignore those in need and lifts up those who… — John Edward Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, like many of today’s reformers, Riis considered teachers the determining factor in whether a child escaped poverty. In his 1892 book… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Politics will always mean more to the poor. Always. That's why we strike and march, and despair when our young say they… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Look here at a warrior born, a scion of power and poverty whose purpose is manifold: to shatter shackles, to murder monarchs,… — Nicholas Eames Copy Share Image
It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
There are many cases in which gifted children have done great things without special school programs. There are also gifted kids who… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“Instead of you pouring out your life and giving out your life and exchanging it for a porridge called salary, instead of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“A cultural chasm between the giver and the given-to made many of the poorest unwilling to ask for help: if bread, clothing,… — Sarah Wise Copy Share Image
“We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I think it goes back to whether or not race and class - that is, race and poverty - is not becoming… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Poverty is not a natural conclusion. It is an intervention. We are not poor because we are inferior as a group of… — Frances Varian Copy Share Image
“Only a fool will deny that an abundance of flowers can quicken a woman's blood, and that continuing sun can burn years… — Joe Ashby Porter Copy Share Image
“Life gets harder and harder. They say we have a lot of people in this country. And the most abundant are the… — Manlio Argueta Copy Share Image
Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia.… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image