“We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.” MeanTwoSocialWealthPrinciplesPovertyEconomicIndiaAbsenceInequalityIndianPlanesTwo ThingsImmenseDegradationElevation Author:B. R. Ambedkar
“The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.” FeelingsHumanityInterestCommunityJusticePovertyPrideWeaknessDirectRichesTyrannyOppositionExpensesDegradationServitudeWretchednessSplendour Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.” IfsNaturalEffortPovertyEnvironmentDevelopmentResourcesEnvironmentalDefeatPursueVainOur EnvironmentDegradationNatural ResourcesSustainable DevelopmentNatural EnvironmentEnvironmental DegradationResource Depletion Author:Kofi Annan
“We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.” KnowsWorldShouldEndsPainJoyPovertySecurityThis WorldPrideSorrowEternalPerfectionEaseFlawsHumiliationTestingNo FearRichnessEternal LifeDegradationNo PainTainted Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.” WorldCountryWholeTodayPoorCitiesPovertyNeighborhoodCivilizedContinentsDegradationDegradeGreat Cities Author:George Bernard Shaw
“And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues.” WorldNeedsGirlSpeakSocialSexCompassionPovertyMillionsIssuesBabyCrisisConvictionDesperateAbortionMassiveSelflessDegradationOrphanSelfless Love Author:David Platt
“Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.” PeopleEvilSocialPovertyIgnoranceDiseaseDegradation Book:Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
“The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.” IfsDoeSufferingEvilOpportunityWhitePoorPovertyColorWeightPrejudiceMarkDiscriminationConfusedHumiliationDegradationOppressorsDeprivationBadgesChained Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.” WayDesireSecretPovertyGainsFortuneInjusticeVery GoodPhilosopherRichesMeritDistinctionGoodsContemptDeprivedDegradation Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.” TogetherPovertyIssuesExampleDiseaseClimateEnvironmentalBrandsAddressesWorking TogetherPollutionDegradationEnvironmental Degradation Author:Simon Mainwaring
“Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.” HumansProblemGivenChallengesPovertyCreativityDiseaseEnvironmentalExtraordinaryMeaningfulCapabilityTranslateTechnologicalUnemploymentUnlimitedDegradationUnprecedentedEnvironmental Degradation Author:Muhammad Yunus