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

— Kofi Annan

By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it…

— Thomas Pogge

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

— Matthew Desmond

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and…

— Helene D. Gayle

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

— George Soros

“The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true…

— Tony Judt

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

Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city…

— James Surowiecki

“In 54 of the 68 poorest countries where 97% of mother and child deaths occur there are glaring disparities between rich and poor.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people,…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course,…

— Noam Chomsky

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

— James Tobin