Browsing Quotes With Tag: poverty (5)
-
And you may not know it, my friends, but it is estimated that we spend $500,000 to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only fifty-three dollars for each person classified as poor, and much of that fifty-three dollars goes for salaries to people that are not poor. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor, and attack it as such.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As long as there is a lower class, I’m in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I’m of it. As long as there’s a soul in prison, I am not free.
Speaker: Eugene DebsSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It has been estimated that in ceremonial of this kind, salutes to royalty and other distinguished personages, the opening and closing of harbours, guns fired at daybreak and sunset from ships and fortresses throughout the civilized world, some 150,000 cannons are uselessly discharged every twenty-four hours. At six francs a time this amounts to 900,000 francs a day, or 300 millions a year. A detail in passing. Meanwhile the poor continue to die of hunger.
Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!