Community Quote by Sharan Burrow

By focusing on getting people dignity and economic empowerment through good jobs, we can draw a clear line through every issue we face -…

— Wes Moore

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can…

— Jeanne Shaheen

What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the…

— Winnie Byanyima

Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage, a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society,…

— Angela Rayner

Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public…

— Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

I believe the quickest and most sure way to reduce poverty, raise living standards and create jobs around the world is to make economies…

— Elliott Bisnow

“It is important that we actively work, as a nation, to improve the standard of living in other countries, but not beyond the point…

— Leslie Wolfe

“poor. They argue that greater economic equality is a matter of simple justice that governments should enforce. We certainly agree with the goal of…

— Barry Asmus

“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by…

— Kofi Annan

Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the…

— John F. Kennedy