Ending poverty Quote by Kofi Annan Download Open image “Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.” — Kofi Annan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ending poverty Extreme poverty Extremes Humans Poverty Prowess Security Threat World poverty
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty. — Aesop Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the… — Kofi Annan 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
