The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a…

Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions…

— Desmond Tutu

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

— Kofi Annan

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

— Frederik Willem de Klerk

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Kofi Annan

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

— Kofi Annan

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

— Nelson Mandela

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…

— Martin Sheen

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

— George C. Marshall

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…

— Edward de Bono

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

— Frederick Douglass

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

— George Bernard Shaw