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“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.”

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.”

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Book:Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.”

“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .”

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Book:Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.”

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Author:Kathleen Blanco

“Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.”

“Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.”

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Frederik Willem de Klerk

“Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.”

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Author:Martin Sheen

“Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.”

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

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Author:Muhammad Yunus

“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.”

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Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.”

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Author:Bob Geldof

“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.”

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Author:Edward Kennedy

“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.”

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Author:John Legend

“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.”

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Author:Annie Lennox

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

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Author:George C. Marshall

“Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.”

“Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.”

“If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

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Author:Brad Pitt

“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.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not a reduction, but an end-to absolute poverty...I have always found that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can make a huge difference.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.”

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Book:The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime

Source: The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime

“Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written.”

“All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing.' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

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

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.”

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Book:Major Barbara

Source: Major Barbara

“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.”

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Author:Martin Sheen

“Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.”

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Author:George Soros

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

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Author:Norman Thomas

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

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Author:John Travolta

“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!”

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Book:The Journalism: 1834-1846

Source: The Journalism: 1834-1846

“Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.”

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Author:Muhammad Yunus

“It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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Author:Willem de Kooning

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

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Author:Evita Peron

“To a man with an empty stomach food is God”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“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.”

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Book:FEAR OF FALLING

Source: FEAR OF FALLING

“Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign”

Wells Doe Poor Poverty Racism Reign Deprivation Ending Poverty Root Cause World Poverty Lack Of Education

Author:Frederik Willem de Klerk

“Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty”

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

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