Human Quote by Coretta Scott King

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

— Matthew Desmond

We live in a country with a vast majority of people below the poverty line. Our natural resources are limited and getting scarcer.

— Amala Akkineni

It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such…

— Alice Waters

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth,…

— Alan Watts

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

— Paul Hawken

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can…

— Rex Tillerson

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we…

— George Eliot

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing…

— Jane Goodall

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not…

— Louise Fresco