Extreme Poverty Quotes

42 quotes by 30 authors

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to… — Michelle Bachelet
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa,… — Bono
Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change… — John Legend
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit… — Roger Moore
By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This… — Brad Pitt
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder… — Jeffrey Sachs
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs,… — Jeffrey Sachs
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of… — Jeffrey Sachs
If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of… — Rajiv Shah
You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early, run hard, rest… — Keith Brantly
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty — Jasmine Guy
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all… — Plato
America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty. — Hugh Evans
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with… — Mencius
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. — Plato
We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule. — Bill Gates
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients… — Bill Gates
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the… — Jeffrey Sachs

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