Accepted Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it.

— Rajnath Singh

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

— Marc Forne Molne

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

— Seneca the Younger

...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

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

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

— Benjamin Mkapa

We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade,…

— Bob Geldof

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

Poverty is unnecessary.

— Muhammad Yunus