“Finish the most important tasks and stop wasting time on irrelevant activities.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Everybody potentially can be great. It is not only some few people who could be great.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Poor people waste time, rich people save time. Poor people who invest time are no longer poor.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in… — Ruth First Copy Share Image
Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“There's something wrong in the world,' Sargam said, 'when good people, honest people, can't sleep under a roof or share a meal… — Karl Taro Greenfeld Copy Share Image
Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
“From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and… — J. Don Cook Copy Share Image
In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods,… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
