What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough in our own pockets; and maybe you will ask us for money.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
The effort we make in trying to get white people to let us alone or invest in us is looking pretty futile…. I am a reluctant separatist
Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.
An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
Real freedom for women is possible only through Communism.
Vladimir Lenin
When the object is to raise the permanent condition of a people, small means do not merely produce small effects; they produce no effect at all.
The world has come around to the view that democracy is essential for full human development. And only education and skill development can make this possible.
Educating children and their parents on the universal messages of free enterprise and self-determination takes money. So does grooming political talent within the community and training and hiring Latino surrogates to bring the message to Spanish- and English-speaking media.
Equality begins with economic empowerment.
When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's easier to relate to a personal story than to global data telling us that the majority of the billion people who live on less than $2 per day are women and girls. We are often told to never treat a person like a statistic.
The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American institutions along genuinely democratic lines.
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
We're creating an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.
How can human rights be ever developed for the majority of Chinese people? The only way is to organize. To organize workers, peasants, merchants, industrialists, and students at the grassroots level.
I'm running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.
Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.
Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.
The power of earning is essential to the dignity of a woman
Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.
We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.
Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
