Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. — Nelson Mandela 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
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all — Evita Peron Copy Share Image
The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I believe we should appoint a cabinet-level position that will be solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. — Kofi Annan 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
Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world… — Edward de Bono 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved… — Dalai Lama 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
What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can… — James Wolfensohn 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
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 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
We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
