The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, the fact remains; he had hope in a better world he could not yet see that overwhelmed the cries of "you… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“What do we mean by poverty? Not what Dickens or Blake or Mayhew meant. Today no one seriously expects to go hungry… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Parents, teachers, professors, economists, pundits, entrepreneurs, tinkerers and misfits all have to do a better job of unapologetically singing the praises of… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that the principal cause of this misery in Nigeria lies in the actions of the leaders themselves, who,… — Barack Okaka Obama Copy Share Image
True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For whom should the government be?… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Scholars talk about the endless cycle of poverty and racism and classism and crime. But I don't see it as a cycle,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The very fact that faith looks to a power beyond itself means that it is continually subject to loss of control. So… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
California, because of their Equity Funding Formula, moves a step in that direction by sending more resources to communities and students that… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“Wherever a pain is, that's where the cure goes; wherever poverty is, that's where provision goes. Wherever a difficult question is, that's… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“The poor have been rebels, but they have never become anarchists: they have got more interest than anyone in there being some… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“My great worry is the problem of poverty…Instead of prisons, I would have schools, art and vocational academies, free trade, free love,… — Luisa Capetillo Copy Share Image
The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“But the poor and indigent who earn scarcely enough to keep themselves alive and who also have to pay tribute to the… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what… — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
“Blind luck, to arrive in the world with your properly formed parts in the right place, to be born to parents who… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“… what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity’s environmental dilemma,… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
![“You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up…” quote by Ralph Nader](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dd/ralph-nader-1783_believe_you-jill-stein-also-believe-in-a-full-em_2057875.jpg)
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