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  • The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

    Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961
  • The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

  • The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

    Issues   Poverty   Poor  
  • Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

  • We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.

    May   Poverty   Poor  
    F. E. Trainer, Ted Trainer (1996). “Towards a Sustainable Economy: The Need for Fundamental Change”, Jon Carpenter Publishing
  • Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  • The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

    Evil   Poverty   Crime  
    Major Barbara (1907) preface
  • Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

  • Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

    Sacrifice   Men   Liberty  
  • ...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.

    Time   Rights   Humanity  
  • What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

    Beautiful   Art   Wish  
    Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
  • Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

    Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886
  • The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

    Time   Poverty   Trouble  
  • Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

  • To a man with an empty stomach food is God

    Food   Men   Poverty  
  • Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.

    Long   Depth   Needs  
  • We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.

    Simplicity   Needs   May  
  • Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

  • It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not a reduction, but an end-to absolute poverty...I have always found that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can make a huge difference.

  • It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

    Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Impending Revolution”, p.18
  • Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

  • Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

    The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University
  • Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.

    Jobs   Children   Work  
  • Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

  • Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

    Doe   Poverty   Poor  
  • Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.

  • I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

  • Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

    "Philanthropist Under Fire". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. March 1, 2004.
  • The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

  • Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.

    Law   Class   Long  
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