Age Quote by Kofi Annan

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

— Kofi Annan

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

“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special…

— Henry Ford

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

— Marc Forne Molne

Do we have the will to make poverty history?

— Edward de Bono

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

“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For…

— Muhammad Yunus

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty…

— Ibrahim Babangida

“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

“Humanity will be better served when those in power, privileged and keepers of it's flame realize that poverty is not a crime nor a…

— Timothy Pina