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The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all,…

— Martin Sheen

I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place you can…

— Muhammad Yunus

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can…

— Jeanne Shaheen

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

— Marc Forne Molne

You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just…

— Matthew Desmond

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

— Muhammad Yunus

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing…

— Peter Singer

Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America,…

— Harry Belafonte

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

The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will.…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf