We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products from China that are produced by people earning less than a dollar an...

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

«Questo liquido è tecnicamente una minestra» continuò Jack, dopo aver tolto il coperchio. «Posso scodellartene un mestolo?»«È piacevole vedere resti di piselli così antichi e consunti che perfino i vermi non li hanno voluti e...

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The...

Maybe your college professor taught that the legacy of colonialism explains Third World poverty. That’s nonsense as well. Canada was a colony. So were Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. In fact, the richest country...

I didn’t have a drill, so I had to make my own. First I heated a long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob, creating a handle. I placed...

A Man’s management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

I need the money, people are very coy about money, and the ladies arent just coy, they are sci fi about money……people ask, well, dont sweet things happen? yes, indeed, many sweet things, but sweet...

You can’t change things. That’s life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.

What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

He was breathing. That’s the first thing you always check for.

May we show great concern to those of great concern to God.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.

The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor...

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don’t throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mindis free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there isno seeking, no asking, no desire, no – nothing! It is only this inwardpoverty that...

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with...

If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery; then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world

When an officer finds themselves arresting pastors that are feeding people who have nothing, they should know they’re on the wrong side.

La mala salud causa pobreza y la pobreza contribuye a empeorar la salud

If you can’t afford the good food or if you can’t afford health care or if you don’t have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can’t get it fixed and you...

En el aspecto social, la inclusión es el principio básico. Nuestro lema son los pobres primero y para los pobres los mejores instrumentos, los mejores maestros, las mejores infraestructuras. La cultura para los pobres no...

But then again…perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I’m simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.

If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge come from? A moral critique of capitalism, emphasizing the ways in which it...

A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality...

We are not bringing Christ to poor communities. He has been active in these communities since the creation of the world, sustaining them, Hebrews 1:3 says, by His powerful Word. Hence, a significant part of...

What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting...

Not all developing countries are the same.

Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135 million between 1981 and 2004 – in other words, more than half a...

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Why are…poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their...

Skeçler yazıp sirk müdürüne götürdüm. Bana, “Ne yazık ki zencisiniz.” diye cevap verdiler. Kıvırcık saçlarımla, esmer tenimi ne kadar sevdiğimi unutuyorlar halbuki. Hatta zencilerin saçlarını beyazlarınkinden daha muntazam buluyorum. Bizim saçlarımız daha uysaldır, istediğimiz yerde...

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

I know what it is to be in need and what it is to have more than enough. I have learnt this secret, so that anywhere, at any time, I am content, whether I am...

I don’t like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don’t like the way people treat each other in the ghetto. It is really hard to...

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left behind.

The emptiness of your pocket is not a recipe for you to discount the value of your passion!

Being rich is not how much is stacked in your bank account but how much you can stack in the hands of men…how much you can give.

I went to Guatemala to help build a school but left wondering what “help” would really look like… I hadn’t prepared myself for how humbled I’d feel, or how hard it would be to find...

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

After his initial homecoming week, after he’d been taken to a bunch of sights by his cousins, after he’d gotten somewhat used to the scorching weather and the surprise of waking up to the roosters...

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

The worst feeling was poor. Because in Haiti, so many people are poor, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. And there’s always a way to degaje, to get by, even when you have nothing. But...

I am here because I worked too hard and too long not to be here. But although I told the university that I would walk across the stage to take my diploma, I won’t. At...

When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don’t have clean water, when you don’t have a sewer system, when you don’t have electricity, and on top of that you live under one...