The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

One way to stop illegal immigration is a border wall.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

I always saw my role as getting LGBT to support the immigrant rights movement – which they did – and getting Latino organizations to support the women’s movement, for reproductive rights. So that’s kind of the work that I’ve always been doing.

If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women’s work… I’ve noticed that it just happens a lot.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

I’ve never been a feminist.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

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.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

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

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

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let’s give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system – at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.