Active Quote by Kofi Annan

Do we have the will to make poverty history?

— Edward de Bono

I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all,…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves”

— ben elton

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of…

— Marvin Olasky

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

— Thabo Mbeki

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And…

— Hans Rosling

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

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

— Oscar Wilde

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and…

— Abhijit Banerjee

I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can…

— Muhammad Yunus