Absent Quote by Colin Powell

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

— Winnie Byanyima

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

— Muhammad Yunus

“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For…

— Muhammad Yunus

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in…

— Sri Aurobindo

“Poverty is a human-engineered product per excellence. It results primarily from inequitable distribution of national revenues coupled with escalating levels of corruption and mismanagement…

— Moutasem Algharati

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in…

— Dean Karlan

“But dignity is also corroded by poverty no matter how poetically we invest the humble with simple graces and charm. No worker can maintain…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

— Plutarch

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

— Stuart Wilde

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

— Thales