The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the…

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So…

— Kathleen Blanco

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution…

— Muhammad Yunus

Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is…

— Muhammad Yunus

“Does affirmative action place minority students in colleges where they're likely to fail while depriving other applicants of the chance to attend the most…

— William Voegeli

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding…

— Muhammad Yunus

Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the…

— Henry Hazlitt

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

— Chris Hughes

“Poverty is rooted in broken relationships, so the solution to poverty is rooted in the power of Jesus' death and resurrection to put all…

— When Helping Hurts Brian Fikkert

Conservatives should single-mindedly privilege marriage as the solution to poverty and the best path for raising successful children, and not rationalize the real of…

— Heather Mac Donald

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

— Muhammad Yunus

Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how the United…

— Rush Limbaugh

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

— Ban Ki-moon

Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that…

— Amy Lockwood

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better…

— Shimon Peres