Ending poverty Quote by James Wolfensohn Download Open image “The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.” — James Wolfensohn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ending poverty Humans Inspirational Issues Poor Poverty World poverty
Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it. — Rajnath Singh Copy Share Image
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white;… — Kathleen Blanco Copy Share Image
If poverty is the number one problem,why try working on it instead of talking about it. — Nix Copy Share Image
You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it. — John Burns Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
First of all, the people left, and they're now coming back. What we have to do is try and help them regain their lives,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
I saw it with my own eyes: Israelis and Palestinians, arm in arm, walking off together and clearly pricing how you could get your… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Kosovo is an agricultural economy particularly. It also has a couple of good power stations that exported power, and the big cooperative which they… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action! — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace… — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security. — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
