I believe we should appoint a cabinet-level position that…

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the…

— Donella Meadows

“Someone once asked Mother Teresa how she dealt with world poverty. Do you know what she said? 'You do the thing that's in front…

— Corban Addison

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a…

— Lateefah Simon

I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine…

— Henry Louis Gates

“As a child in poverty you never know that you're poor, the slums are the slums. They're home. They're what is. So I'd never…

— Mark Lawrence

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so…

— Lupita Nyong'o

As a young girl growing up in poverty, I know firsthand how much a paycheck from a summer job can make a difference.

— London Breed

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

— Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty…

— Henry David Thoreau

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

— Annie Lennox

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

It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the…

— Edward de Bono

The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!

— Barbara Boxer

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.

— John Travolta

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising…

— Maria Montessori