Best Extreme Poverty Quotes
42 Extreme Poverty quotes by 29 unique authors
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and…
— Al Franken
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Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp…
— Paul Farmer
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
— Groucho Marx
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Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
— Roger Moore
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Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
— Peter Singer
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...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights.…
— Kofi Annan
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Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
— Bill Gates
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The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The…
— Ban Ki-moon
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To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
— Peter Singer
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If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide…
— Peter Singer
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There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
— Hans Rosling
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We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent…
— Alberto Fujimori
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of…
— Unknown Author
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Women are 1/2 the world population but 3/5 of those living in extreme poverty.
— Minka Kelly
Who Wrote These Extreme Poverty Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 42 Extreme Poverty Quotes, led by these top contributors: