Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
“There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security. — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action! — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending… — Catherine Cortez-Masto Copy Share Image
Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and… — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
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… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death,… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
