“Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.” PeopleWorldChildrenMotherDiesWaterPovertyHugeTerribleSafeWeaponsMedicineDrinkingBillionsLifestyleHungryPlentyDirtyContradictionOur WorldChildbirthDirty WaterLavish Lifestyle Author:Ban Ki-moon
“It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.” IfsWantKindDoneFactsProblemPovertyHugeBiggerExtremesSolveObjectivesGet It DoneExtreme PovertyBigger Problems Author:Matt Damon
“There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts of the world that make people desperate: poverty, disease, ignorance, etc. I hope that we will discover soon, that we can survive, only together. We can prosper only together. And I think people are beginning to realize this, that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think you can have a stable, secure world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLongWarTogetherWinningRealizingPovertyConditionsIgnoranceHugeDiseaseTerrorProsperitySecureDesertDesperateEtcPocketsStableDeprivationTogether We Can Author:Desmond Tutu
“The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.” PeopleWorldActionPovertyHugeDemandProveThanksAround The WorldBrownBlairGlobal Health Author:Bill Gates
“We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.” NeedsIdeasProblemBigsSufferingPovertyCreativityEnvironmentViolenceCrazyDangerousHugeRacismInnovationSolveMassiveHomophobiaCreativity And InnovationFailure Is Not An OptionCrazy Ideas Author:Brené Brown
“Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even comprehend the individual things. Just take homelessness. If you are homeless, what does it mean not to have a post box where people can contact you; what does it mean not knowing where you're going to sleep at the end of the day; what does it mean not having a place where you can store what little you might possess. So dealing with homelessness in itself is a huge thing for most people who are commentators [on] or benefactors to poverty.” PeopleIfsMeanLittlesDoeEndsMightWould BeIndividualDifficultSleepPovertyKnowingHugeElementsBoxesStoresContactPostsThe End Of The DayNot KnowingHomelessHomelessnessGoing To SleepCommentatorsBenefactors Author:Kumi Naidoo
“You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.” Has BeensProblemForcePoorPovertyCrimeHugeLosingPoliceExtremesRegimesJoblessnessGovernanceHomelessnessLegitimacyPolice ForceExtreme PovertyKabul Author:Khaled Hosseini
“The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.” PeopleWorldGivingHumansThreePovertyFiveHugePercentBottomAveragePopulationNineIncomeInequalityThirtyQuartersHouseholdAvoidedRatiosHuman Population Author:Thomas Pogge
“I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.” BelieveDoneI BelieveSocialPovertyIssuesSecurityGreatnessHugeColdPoliticianGenerositySocial SecurityElderlyFranklinAdmirerCold Blooded Author:Jon Meacham