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The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.

Coretta Scott King

Women, Woman, Faith, Racism, War, Power

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

Women, Change, Water, Food, Growth

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. - Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Loneliness, Feeling, Unwanted, Being

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Life, Terrorism, Death, Food, Violence

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

Ignorance, Justice, Society, Feel, Class

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Think, Start, Naked, Homeless, Sometimes

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

World, Rest, Long, Inequality, Injustice

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. - May Sarton

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Alone, Loneliness, Self, Solitude

No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country.

Travel, Violence, Long, Enough, Country

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Children, Time, Child, Together, You

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

People, Suffering, Gender, Our, Pledge

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. - Adam Smith

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Poor, Tragedy, Real, Aspirations

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Poor, Who, Expensive, How, Knows, Ever

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Good, Equality, Challenge, Gender

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Life, Death, Prayer, War, Church, Escape

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.

Think, Person, Eat, Nothing, Hunger

What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed... but on cooperation... where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.

Work, Fire, Vision, People, Together

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Family, Work, Mother, Childhood, Tea

For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution.

Education, Growth, Great, Challenge

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

William J. Clinton

Education, Good, Growth, Opportunity

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Pauline Phillips

Loneliness, Ultimate

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Life, Yourself, Daily, Poetry, Blame

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Life, Yourself, You, Ambition, True

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Today, America, Triumph, Land, Over, Any

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Men, Battle, White, Eating, Long, Edge

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Life, Friends, True, Weakness, Comfort

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