Diversity Quote by Andrew Young

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

— Thabo Mbeki

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to…

— Ayrton Senna

the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

— Muhammad Yunus

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be…

— Robert Payne

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor…

— Anonymous

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

— Adam Smith

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

— Ayrton Senna

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

— Jeremy Corbyn

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

— Coretta Scott King

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that — situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest…

— Edward Seaga