Cairo Quote by Jehane Noujaim

Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they…

— Bette Midler

I began to do documentary photographs of poverty which is very widespread in Indonesia. There's terrible poverty. These are people who have jobs, raise…

— James Nachtwey

Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they cannot produce…

— Walter E. Williams

I used to work with a relief group that took care of the people in the dump. We took them food and water and…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Where there is abundance you can afford waste.

— Wyndham Lewis

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

— Muhammad Yunus

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

— Narendra Modi

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

— Richard Paul Evans

There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

— Alex Steffen

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so…

— Lupita Nyong'o

How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day. You can educate children an awful…

— Joycelyn Elders

Both of these places, Cairo's downtown and Tahrir Square, are in the heart of downtown Cairo. They are places where young people gather to…

— Leila Fadel