Impact Quote by Marty Natalegawa

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.

— Chinua Achebe

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

— Marco Rubio

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

— Matthew Desmond

Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you…

— Wendell Berry

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

— James Wolfensohn

The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the…

— Wendell Berry

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

— Alan Cohen

Poverty damages the educational potential of children, whether through stress or poor diet, while overcrowded, poor-quality housing has the same impact too.

— Owen Jones

Poverty affects people of all races.

— Bill Bennett

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

— Shane Claiborne

Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

— John Gummer

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they…

— Bunker Roy