Accumulate Quote by Thomas Pogge

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if…

— Kofi Annan

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

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.

— Sharan Burrow

Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth of a…

— Henry Hazlitt

“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we…

— Matthew Desmond

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the…

— George Orwell

“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest struggle for…

— 1884 Henry George (Progress and Poverty

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently…

— Charles A. Murray

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time,…

— John Woolman

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and…

— Helene D. Gayle