Ending Poverty Quotes

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and the engagement of all.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!

When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.

Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.

Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.