Best Extreme Poverty Quotes

42 Extreme Poverty quotes by 29 unique authors

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
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
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
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. — Groucho Marx
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. — Roger Moore
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer
...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
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
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. — Bill Gates
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
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid. — Peter Singer
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
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
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
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs
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
Women are 1/2 the world population but 3/5 of those living in extreme poverty. — Minka Kelly

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