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

    Issues   Poverty   Poor  
  • 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
  • Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

    Cancer   Weather   Space  
  • ...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  
  • Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

    "Filmgoers flock to anti-Obama doc" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 24, 2012.
  • 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
  • Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

  • 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  
  • There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

    Witty   Humorous   Food  
  • We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.

    "'We're the first generation that has had the power to destroy the planet. Ignoring that risk can only be described as reckless'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2009.
  • Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

    Dream   Relief   Debt  
  • It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.
  • It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.

    "Transcript of Bill Clinton's Speech to the Democratic National Convention". www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.
  • There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

    Money   War   Poverty  
  • Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

    War   World   Poverty  
  • When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in - you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we're going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.

    Girl   Song   Thinking  
    "Saturday". Book by Ian Mcewan, 2005.
  • Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

    Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
  • In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.

    World   Lasts   Poverty  
  • Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

    Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182
  • This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

  • Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

    Racism   Doe   Reign  
  • If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

    William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.52, Paulist Press
  • The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

    John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.234, Vintage
  • There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

  • Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

  • It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

  • Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

    Twitter post from Jan 21, 2016
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