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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.
You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.
I can go on and on. In the Appalachians. I fed the poorest part of this nation for years coming up at Christmas.
At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
The poorest guy in Miami lives better than much of the power elite in Havana.
In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.
Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.
The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.
The Catholic Church is wealthier than Coca-Cola, but takes from some of the poorest people in the world.
I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.
Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
The world's poorest people use the cheapest available fuels - dung and twigs and even leaves.
But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?
When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.
It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.
The poorest still deserve help with life's basic necessities regardless of the quality of their government.
We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.
All young people can benefit from practical business knowledge but especially those from the poorest parts of the country.
Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.
Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.
In short, corruption destroys the 'deal' - the bargain - between the citizen and the state; and it harms the poorest most.
To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.
Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.
Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.
Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to the poorest slums.
Oxfam believes that any global talks to reform tax rules must include all countries, including the poorest.
It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.
The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.
Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.
Society and Government should together give priority to the poorest of poor and make efforts to provide affordable health services.
The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.
The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.
Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.
The government can build physical infrastructure in the form of housing for the poorest of the poor, and availability of energy, toilets and water in every home.
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.
Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.
I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.
To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.
Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.