When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

I have a Father's Day every day.

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

I'm on this road for the rest of my life.

It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.

The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.

In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.

When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.

It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

Every man should see the birth of his children.

When you have a spiritual foundation you look at poverty differently then.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.