Human dignity Quote by Dean Karlan

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of…

— James Gustave Speth

“In the final analysis, poverty means death: lack of food and housing, the inability to attend properly to health and education needs, the exploitation…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with unhealthy environmental…

— Uzoma Nnadi

“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

“from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological poverty, which puts the very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima

“Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.”

— Paula Brackston

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of…

— Johan Norberg

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

— Amartya Sen

“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without…

— Secundus the Silent

“Most poverty is a lack of opportunity.”

— Adam LiVecchi

“Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.”

— Bryant McGill