Another Quote by Tavis Smiley

Given the total income and wealth available in the world today, we could easily overcome poverty, which would require raising the share of the…

— Thomas Pogge

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income…

— Bill Gates

Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of…

— Bernie Sanders

If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out…

— Rajiv Shah

We can't have all the concentration of wealth in a few places in this country. We've got to create economic opportunity and new industries…

— Ro Khanna

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

— Peter Diamandis

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing…

— Jane Goodall

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

— Zong Qinghou

“If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent — at least when it comes to housing —…

— Matthew Desmond

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

— Phillips Brooks

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

— Paul Hawken

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

— Bill Gates