Country Quote by Muhammad Yunus

I broke the cycle of poverty thanks to education.

— Jaime Harrison

I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs rumbling so…

— Jimmy Barnes

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning…

— Muhammad Yunus

I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When…

— Hans Rosling

One of the things my dad and mom worked on throughout their lives was the eradication of poverty.

— Martin Luther King III

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money.…

— Faith Sullivan

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and…

— Nolan Bushnell

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that…

— Alcee Hastings

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds…

— Naveen Jain

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

— Matthew Desmond

Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the…

— Matthew Desmond

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

— Taylor Caldwell