Children Quote by Kevin Watkins

The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals…

— Hugh Evans

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

— Nelson Mandela

“to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and…

— Mark Twain

“We are free from saving ourselves or pretending we are strong. We are free from mothering our children in certain ways in order to…

— Gloria Furman

The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto-revel…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in…

— Dean Karlan

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

— Mother Teresa

“What if citizens organized to demand what the Declaration of Independence promised: a government that protected the equal rights of all to life, liberty,…

— Howard Zinn

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

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes…

— Nelson Mandela

“Nor will we acquiesce in the help for underdeveloped countries being a program of “sisters of charity.” This help should be the ratification of…

— Frantz Fanon

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings;…

— Pope John XXIII