Best Ending Poverty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now. So, either people are not aware of their collective power, or their fears overpower their desires. The amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex in one year is more than enough to end hunger in Africa. Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.”

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Author:Jim Yong Kim

“We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.”

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Book:Towards a Sustainable Economy: The Need for Fundamental Change

Source: Towards a Sustainable Economy: The Need for Fundamental Change

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.”

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Author:Edward de Bono

“On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.”

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Author:Edward de Bono

“This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .”

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Author:Edward de Bono

“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.”

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Author:Edward de Bono

“Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.”

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Author:Edward de Bono

“Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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Book:A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy

Source: A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.”

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Author:Dennis Banks

“It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.”

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Author:Roger Moore

“Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.”

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Author:Roger Moore

“You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.”

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Book:PARLIAMENT OF WHORES A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Source: PARLIAMENT OF WHORES A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”

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

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”

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Author:Grace Abbott

“Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.”

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Author:Russell Simmons

“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.”

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Author:Emma Thompson

“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.”

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Author:Emma Thompson

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

Source: Towards a new world: defining moments

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

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”

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Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“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.”

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

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

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

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Book:Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.”

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Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“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”

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Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Hunger makes a thief of any man.”

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Book:The Good Earth

Source: The Good Earth

“Live simply so that others may simply live.”

“Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.”

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Author:Patch Adams

“Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. 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. 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.”

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Author:Emma Thompson

“Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.”

“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.”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“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.”

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Author:Marlo Thomas

“Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.”

“I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.”

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Author:Ruth Manorama

“...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.”

“There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.”

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

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Book:A Speech on the Impending Revolution

Source: A Speech on the Impending Revolution

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

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Author:Andrew Cuomo

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