Country Quote by Amala Akkineni

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

— Matthew Desmond

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing…

— Jane Goodall

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at…

— Jeff Corwin

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we…

— George Eliot

Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is…

— Coretta Scott King

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth,…

— Alan Watts

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

— Marc Forne Molne

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that…

— Anonymous

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa,…

— Tran Duc Luong

We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is…

— Petra Kelly