I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme…

It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is…

— Juan Manuel Santos

“The corporate government is completely okay with sending sickened people into extreme poverty for the rest of their lives by blatantly denying their genuine…

— Steven Magee

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

— Bill Gates

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…

— Jeffrey Sachs

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy…

— Noreena Hertz

The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and the Polish…

— Marty Walsh

If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot…

— Peter Singer

Tomorrow is Now... If we act, 2015 can be a year for the history books. It can be the year that we put the…

— Kathy Calvin

“Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”

— Groucho Marx

The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The…

— Jeffrey Sachs

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

— Shane Claiborne

If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out…

— Rajiv Shah

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.

— Kevin Watkins

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

— Jeffrey Sachs

“Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.”

— Bryant McGill