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
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 majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and… — Marty Walsh 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
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
There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing. — Shane Claiborne 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
The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of… — Kevin Watkins 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
Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I… — John Legend 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
By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening,… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But… — Winnie Byanyima 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
If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great… — Denis Diderot 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
India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane… — Daisaku Ikeda 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
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 way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
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