A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation...

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can’t address such...

Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more needful—to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity...

Life’s mystery continued to trouble meA question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult?

If this comedy thing doesn’t work out, I’ve always got poverty to fall back on.

Honesty is not a virtue, it is a luxury. Most, who struggle to put bread on the table, face this question every day. And hunger wins this game almost every time, beta (son).

When someone steals another’s clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the...

It reveals the overlap between poverty and race in the U.S.. It also points out the deep poverty that exists in this country. We have a tremendous divide.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

those people”–the ones we don’t trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don’t let our kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don’t want living next door.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It’s almost maddening.

The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner...

Today’s youth will determine if we’re going to fail or succeed in ending global poverty by 2030

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

We used to talk and smile seven days ago when I was wearing a suit. Now I’m dressed in a beard and smell of dog shit I don’t even get eye contact. I ask her...

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.

All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As...

Poverty is being single.

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that...

UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality… I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women … will have more impact on curbing population...

You know what I mean. I’m telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn’t have the time to be a good parent. Obviously,...

A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn’t.

John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society. He believed that government existed by the consent of the governed, not by...

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.”[ Live 8 Concert, Mary...

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be...

The border between the State of Israel and the occupied Gaza Strip had always reminded him of the line between Tijuana and greater San Diego. There, too, ragged men the color of earth waited with...

I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcryand whose arrival announces to men the season when fieldsare plowed, and the voice of her broke the heart that darkens within me,since...

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

One of the biggest misconceptions remains that Neil Gaiman spent his youth lurching from bedsit to library and back again, subsisting on a diet of blood-temperature baked beans and the wild leeks he managed to...

Success is relative. We shouldn’t compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.

Poverty advances discrimination and corruption because society classifies the rich and poor. Poverty augments anger, selfishness, hatred and envy among the people.Poverty entwined with desperation ends up in violence.” – Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from...

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

My grandpa doesn’t even have a grand to his name.

Learning about Poverty’. ‘Two young American Jesuits showed up at the Jesuit headquarters in Rome. Father Arrupe asked what assignment had brought them there. They explained that they were on their way to India to...

I had a dream about you. Time didn’t exist for us. We were like two people who were in love who were always late. But we didn’t care, because where there is no time there...

Standing around making ten dollars an hour—that’s what they pay me the big bucks for.

Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or...

No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones

I know what poverty is.

Then they start going on about cancer and how organic living is the way forward, totally ignoring how expensive it is to be organic and that there are a lot of people out there grateful...

In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to feed your family, and sometimes even your own liberty, the idea...

Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. “I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness.””May I ask for a specific example?””Fat priests,” Royce replied, “with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on...

There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political interests reside. Personally, I think the elites worry too much about that. We...

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.