Causes Quote by Pope Francis

If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we…

— Barack Obama

“If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we…

— Barack Obama

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

— Marc Forne Molne

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

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty…

— Ibrahim Babangida

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

— Riane Eisler

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

— Andrew Weil

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

— Milton Friedman

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

— Roger McDonald

It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

— Thomas Pogge