Children Quote by Wangari Maathai

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.

— Wangari Maathai

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce…

— Wangari Maathai

Western countries have gone through their development cycle and enjoyed the fruits of ruining the environment over many years and are now giving us…

— Piyush Goyal

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

— H. Rap Brown

I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants - I…

— Rajiv Gandhi

“I'm not here to eliminate poverty, to eradicate disease, to put a stop to people abandoning babies. I'm just here to love.”

— Katie J. Davis

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of…

— Rudy Giuliani

Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping…

— Pete Seeger

“Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor- an echo…

— Margaret Feinberg

If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don't know. It's hard…

— Stanley Druckenmiller

We cannot eliminate poverty without enabling developing countries to engage more people in economic activity that use natural resources, and we cannot resolve runaway…

— Paul Polman

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country…

— Ted Turner