Causes Quote by Marco Rubio

As an anthropology major, I wanted to understand the cultural significance of poverty - why it exists and why some countries can rise above…

— Lauren Bush

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly…

— Jeb Bush

There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience…

— Madsen Pirie

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

— Colin Powell

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

— Jane Jacobs

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

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is…

— Jack Monroe

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

— John M. Perkins

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

— Kofi Annan

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley

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

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

— Helen Keller