“The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.” WorldCountryChallengesSimplePovertyStruggleCuttingSolutionsActivismWealthyCarbonEmissionsSimple Solutions Author:Al Gore
“Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsWritingMatterRealitySocialLosesSimplePovertyStrangeComfortSightVictimComplexesPhenomenonFadesElusiveParadoxicalPersonal MatterSimple And Complex Author:Dorothy Day
“You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.” DifferentLeftWealthSimpleResultsPovertyYouthSonMastersHigherTasteResourcesActiveEducatedEducateModestFertileDiligentYour SonHigher Ground Book:Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose Source: Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose
“The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.” WorldHas BeensHomeGovernmentCareChoicesSimplePovertyHeardDevelopmentBirthSafeConflictInstitutionsComplicatedPlanningEmploymentHealth CareRebellionConsumptionIgnoredOrthodoxyBirth ControlFamily PlanningCairo Author:Anna Quindlen
“I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.” PeopleMenFeelsLooksHandsEyeFacesSimplePovertyTearsBrokenInstitutionsLegsAccidentsPocketsBlessTicketsAffluenceCrutchesBoonVestsBroken Leg Book:Mark Twain Speaking Source: Mark Twain Speaking
“We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is the rich who are making the world poorer. Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.” WorldTwoSimplePoorPovertyStruggleRichEnvironmentLandResourcesCrisis Author:Petra Kelly
“Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how the United States became this special place and then try to replicate it around the world, because that's the solution to the human condition. The solution to poverty, the solution to misery, the solution to backwards living is the United States of America. Why not learn how that happened, learn why and how we happened. What is it that made it special?” PeopleWorldTryingHumansMadeStatesAmericaSimpleUnitedCommonPovertyUnited StatesHappenedSpecialConditionsFiguresSolutionsUnderstoodMiseryCommon SenseMade ItAround The WorldWhy NotHuman ConditionUnited States Of AmericaBackwardsSpecial PlacesReplicateSolutions To Poverty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.” TwoEndsParentDifferencesSimpleQualityPovertyStrugglePolicyPaidRemainsWorkplaceFlexibilityAntidoteAffordablePaychecksSingle ParentChildcare Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.” YoungSimpleCitiesPovertyLaysBreathingParisMoonlightBeside YouFrance ParisMoveable Feast Book:The Hemingway Collection Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Live simply so that others may simply live.” MaySpiritualSimplePovertyDiversitySimplicityChristian InspirationalSimple LifeSimplifySimple ThingsMinimalismSimple LivingEnding PovertyWorld PovertyLiving A Simple LifeLive SimplyGlobal PovertySimplifying LifeSimplifying Your LifeTiny Houses Author:Mahatma Gandhi