Crisis Quote by Irene Khan

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it…

— Muhammad Yunus

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves…

— 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.

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is…

— Dorothy Day

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible…

— Pete Townshend

Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support…

— John Hope Bryant

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

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your…

— Ana Castillo