Causes Quote by Kofi Annan

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

— Robert D. Kaplan

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

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

— Colin Powell

Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems…

— Matt Damon

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose…

— Adam Davidson

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

— Irwin Redlener

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go…

— Robert Kennedy

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

— James Wolfensohn

“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along”

— Matthew Desmond

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

— Andrew Mitchell