Country Quote by Matthew Desmond

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their…

— Aga Khan IV

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

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Marc Forne Molne

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth,…

— Alan Watts

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

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

— Michael Tubbs

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from…

— Thein Sein

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance…

— Maxine Waters

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

— Pope Francis

We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty, hunger, disease,…

— Harry Belafonte