America Quote by Martin Luther King III

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the…

— Donella Meadows

“Someone once asked Mother Teresa how she dealt with world poverty. Do you know what she said? 'You do the thing that's in front…

— Corban Addison

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a…

— Lateefah Simon

I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine…

— Henry Louis Gates

“As a child in poverty you never know that you're poor, the slums are the slums. They're home. They're what is. So I'd never…

— Mark Lawrence

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so…

— Lupita Nyong'o

As a young girl growing up in poverty, I know firsthand how much a paycheck from a summer job can make a difference.

— London Breed

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

— Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty…

— Henry David Thoreau

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

— Annie Lennox

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest…

— Jeffrey Sachs

It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the…

— Edward de Bono