“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way. — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
“Time can be converted to anything. It is from that time that everything is made.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“The trouble is Indians aren't used to being prosperous. We are more comfortable dealing with poverty- after all, poverty has been the… — Shobhaa De Copy Share Image
What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks. — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa. — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I… — George Muller Copy Share Image
My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“If you can see through my eyes, you may see the real beauty I see in poor people, in old age homes,… — Ratish Edwards Copy Share Image
“Did poverty in itself lead to moral failings, such as crime? Was "goodness" something that could be objectified and measured? Did society… — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“When we do those things, we’re actually filling a void in our lives with debt. It’s a slow but sure self-destructive process,… — Celso Cukierkorn Copy Share Image
It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development. — Andrew Mitchell Copy Share Image
A poor man has no need of justice and a rich man has no need of character. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth. — Roger McDonald Copy Share Image
“Coca cola and McDonalds is spreading. Just like hunger and poverty.” — Tim Goossens Copy Share Image
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“...the day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender. — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best. — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
