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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.
Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.
In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.
If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.
Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.
I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!
I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.
The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.
Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.
Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life
There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.
Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.
The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.