“A second line of research has shown that economic stress robs us of cognitive bandwidth. Worrying about bills, food or other problems,… — Martin Meadows Copy Share Image
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of… — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image
“Ree Dolly stood at the break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat. Meat hung… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the… — Charles Rangel Copy Share Image
I grew up in Brooklyn, in what I now know was poverty. Sharing a tiny bedroom with my two brothers, eating government… — Theodore Melfi Copy Share Image
“Then, left alone, shivering, I happened to glance up. I stood, I froze, blinking up through the drift, the drift, the silent… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“But Buenos Aires also had poor outlying slums, called villa miserias, where hundreds of thousands of people lived in tin or cardboard… — Neal Bascomb Copy Share Image
Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead,… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
We had poverty in our house. Even on the council estate I knew I was one of the poorer kids. I used… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
“When's the election?" "Next Tuesday. Y'all niggers going to vote for me?" A slender snaggle-toothed boy waved his hand in front of… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. And I ain't never did… — Tupac Copy Share Image
To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
“People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche—effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
“I began to feel sorry for myself, to understand what it means to be helpless, and to understand why it's a good… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I think this book, Matthew Desmond's "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.", if you have a friend who is a… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“No other economic system has brought any country from poverty to prosperity. A free-market system is the only type that offers a… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“He was a poor man, the husband of a sickly woman, whom his desertion would leave alone and destitute; and even if… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Business is about problem-solving, but it does not always have to be about maximizing profit. When I went into business, my interest… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand. And if we are all born equal that should be true… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
