If it is true that one is poor on account of all the…

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