The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. — Plato Copy Share Image
Women are 1/2 the world population but 3/5 of those living in extreme poverty. — Minka Kelly Copy Share Image
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine. — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
The country is in the worst conditions ever in its history. It's unjustifiable that in a country with the largest petroleum reserves… — Henrique Capriles Radonski Copy Share Image
We want to be a country with a competitive edge in the world. And a country with a solid democracy. To do… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent… — Alberto Fujimori Copy Share Image
You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which… — Mark Takano Copy Share Image
There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Tomorrow is Now... If we act, 2015 can be a year for the history books. It can be the year that we… — Kathy Calvin Copy Share Image
It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million… — Rajiv Shah 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
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews… — Mencius Copy Share Image
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the… — Plato Copy Share Image
It's shocking to me still, that children - just because of where they're born - are born into a life of extreme… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty. — David Batstone Copy Share Image
There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa. — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
“We are the First Generation that can End Global Extreme Poverty. One of the Ways is by Investing in Education” — David Sikhosana Copy Share Image
India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.” — Groucho Marx 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
“The corporate government is completely okay with sending sickened people into extreme poverty for the rest of their lives by blatantly denying… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image