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Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks money is the capital needed to start up a business or any project of choice. I, however, disagree with that… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“I need the money, people are very coy about money, and the ladies arent just coy, they are sci fi about money…… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society… — Martin Nowak Copy Share Image
We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease,… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
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The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of… — Cal Jillson Copy Share Image
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She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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Salafists are fundamentalists who dedicate their lives to religious preaching, converting non-believers and defending the strict moral codes of Islamic law. Salafists… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
One of the most durable successes of the war on poverty was to dramatically reduce the number of elderly poor in America.… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
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“And St. Francis added: "My dear and beloved Brother, the treasure of blessed poverty is so very precious and divine that we… — St. Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ms. Merkel is avoiding retirement issues. She simply doesn't want to do anything, although she knows that doing nothing means that real… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
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“What's happened here, Sayid? There never used to be such begging." "You are right," he said. "I believe they have learned this… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and… — Jesse Jackson, Jr Copy Share Image
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