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
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“I never doubted I would have a roof over my head, a school to go to, enough to to eat, books (and… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
“The municipality sent water through six Annawadi faucets for ninety minutes in the morning and ninety minutes at night. Shiv Sena men… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth:… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Two out of ten U.S. children of all backgrounds live in poverty, and one-third of black and close to one-third of Latino… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans—often rich Americans—consume too much healthcare, often unwisely,… — Otis Webb Brawley Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives with poor health or chronic pain, or who has endured poverty - real poverty - knows what it is… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are “those people.” The truth is…we are the others. Most of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“How in the world can a poor man eat? Pray for the sunshine, ’cause it will rain. Things gettin’ worse, drivin’ all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I came from a background where I was very poor growing up but I have never known poverty. My parents worked hard… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Many problems that confront us today are created by man, whether they are violent conflicts, destruction of the environment, poverty or hunger.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
“People like Larraine lived with so many compounded limitations that it was difficult to imagine the amount of good behavior or self-control… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, poverty means death: lack of food and housing, the inability to attend properly to health and education needs,… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
I don't see the minimum wage as a fight between capital and labor, between persistent small businesses and diligent employees. I think… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
“Does affirmative action place minority students in colleges where they're likely to fail while depriving other applicants of the chance to attend… — William Voegeli Copy Share Image
I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
“They went on living in poverty, though they were no longer in need, but they were set in their ways, and they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“My aim here was much more straightforward and objective — just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“A society should be judged by how we treat the most vulnerable among us, especially children, and that the measure of our… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image