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
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
I think that wireless has the opportunity to solve a whole bunch of problems, including I believe world poverty. — Martin Cooper 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
Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to… — Hilary Benn 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
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Someone once asked Mother Teresa how she dealt with world poverty. Do you know what she said? 'You do the thing that's… — Corban Addison Copy Share Image
People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Maybe your college professor taught that the legacy of colonialism explains Third World poverty. That’s nonsense as well. Canada was a colony.… — Walter Williams Copy Share Image
It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I love to read, and I am kind of different from most of the kids at my school. I hate gossip and… — AnnaSophia Robb Copy Share Image
There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those… — Mother Teresa 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
“You can’t preach things like spirituality, yoga, or animal activism to someone who hasn’t had a decent meal in days...” — Dr. Deepak S. Hiwale aka 'Dr Dee 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
If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
The day will end world poverty! Will initiate a disaster, as the last day of the world? — Mak_786 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
