We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.
Poverty does not create our social problems. . . our social problems create our poverty.
And plenty makes us poor.
I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.
Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
There's no nobility in poverty.
I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.
The poor are only they who feel poor.
The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.
We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty
Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.
Concentrate on poverty and you will be poor.
If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!
It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.
