“You don't want to hear that there are over 60 million women in poverty on President [Barack] Obama's watch. And Hillary Clinton who has been fighting for women and children for 30 years. Where is the deliverable. Where is the product? Hillary Clinton has been fighting for herself for 30 years.” WantYearsChildrenHas BeensFightingPresidentPovertyWatchesMillionsProductsClintonBarackPresident Barack Obama Author:Kellyanne Conway
“The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there hasn't been a corresponding increase in the private sector. What is especially painful is government policy bailed out the banks without making them make reinvestments for rebuilding. The result is 53-million Americans are food insecure, 50-million Americans are in poverty, 44 million are on food stamps, 26 million are looking for a job.” Has BeensGovernmentJobsBlackResultsClassPovertyMillionsTeacherMiddlePolicyOfficeIncreaseWorkersPainfulPostsMiddle ClassDeclineInsecureStampsPolicemenPrivate SectorCorrespondingRebuildingFiremanPost OfficePublic SectorFood StampsGovernment PolicyLooking For A Job Author:Jesse Jackson
“We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea of giving - of fighting poverty and of promoting the equality of human beings - whatever their background, whatever their political beliefs.” WorldGivingHumansHas BeensIdeasPoliticalFightingBeliefHuman BeingsPovertyCenturyAppreciateBackgroundsPromotingPolitical Beliefs Author:Nelson Mandela
“I think Scotland's got its own issues, in some ways similar to Northern Ireland with sectarianism, which has been a long-running sore. All the issues of land ownership, development resources, poverty, alcoholism and violence, all these things.” ThinkingWayLongHas BeensRunningPovertyIssuesViolenceLandDevelopmentResourcesIrelandOwnershipScotlandAlcoholismSectarianismNorthern Ireland Author:Irvine Welsh
“The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting has been heavily on the rosy side since about 2000. The Bank's cultivation of an upbeat picture affords a very interesting lesson in statistics and how you can, depending on which numbers you present and how you present them, create a more positive or more negative impression of the evolution of poverty.” WorldHas BeensSidesInterestingNumbersPovertyEvolutionLessonsNegativeDuesImpressionDataStatisticsMonopolyVery InterestingCultivationProvidersRosyUpbeatWorld Bank Author:Thomas Pogge
“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.” YearsHumansWellsHas BeensTodayHumanityCulturePleasurePovertyFailingCostStandardsPercentHundredYears AgoWell BeingOur TimeSevereCould Have BeenStandards Of LivingAffluent Author:Thomas Pogge
“The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much America was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how the resistance of blacks to that enslavement has been the spark plug for so many important developments.” PeopleThinkingMindDoeHas BeensImportantIdeasAmericaSufferingPovertyRevolutionDevelopmentStartingHungerFolksResistanceAgentsActivistSparksUnemploymentPlugsEnslavement Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.” Has BeensTwoBigsBornPovertyWiseBirthAdvantageSophia Author:Sophia Loren
“I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.” PeopleWorldBelieveHas BeensI BelieveSocialPoorPovertyEconomicPolicyConceptsInstitutionsPursuePoor PeopleSocial SystemsFree World Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” PeopleWorldInspirationalHas BeensWarCountryProblemRunningFacesPoliticalDeathLeaderPovertyMillionsInjusticeStupidityTyrannyCrueltyObedienceJailConformityTyrantsThievesPettyDisobedienceStarvationObedientCivil Disobedience Author:Howard Zinn
“Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.” PeopleIfsHas BeensChristianPovertyCrimeOughtDestitute Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre
“I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and hunger on Earth. But, look, I'm a scientist who sees inspiration as the ultimate tool for doing good. When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you're working at the margins. When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved. Give yourself permission to dream.” PeopleMenGivingHumansLooksHas BeensUseProblemDreamInspirationEarthUsedValuesFightingPovertyAchieveMoonArgumentToolsUltimateScientistDollarsHungerBillionsPermissionMaximumCould Have BeenMarginsDoing GoodHuman PotentialGreat Value Author:Randy Pausch