There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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
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
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
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
I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a… — Ruth Manorama Copy Share Image
Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
Defeating malaria is absolutely critical to ending poverty, improving the health of millions, and enabling future generations to reach their full potential. — Tedros Adhanom 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
Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment… — Nelson Mandela 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
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
“And according to Duncan and the Business Roundtable handlers, we need to pay children for test scores, which ends up as great… — Jim Horn Copy Share Image
All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less… — Jeffrey Sachs 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
Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live,… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor. — Muhammad Yunus 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
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
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the… — George C. Marshall 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
It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty.… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
