“What is really important is to educate people how to protect themselves and how to ensure that, despite their poverty, they can get tested and access drugs. So I just hope that those who can will make those drugs available.” PeopleImportantPovertyDrugProtectAvailableAccessDespiteEducateTested Author:Wangari Maathai
“Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]” PeopleInterestPovertyRichProtectReckless Author:Immortal Technique
“Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.” WarPovertyProtectDiseaseMajorsDisasterPollutionFamineEpidemics Author:Akong Rinpoche
“In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can have harmful effects for poorer states, prolonging situations of extreme mass poverty of men and women and using up the earth's natural resources, entrusted to man by God the Creator-as Genesis says-that he might cultivate and protect it.” MenStatesMightEarthNaturalSituationPovertyEconomyEconomicEffectsProtectMassMen And WomenResourcesCurrentsCreatorExtremesTemptationNeverthelessConsumerismChasingAlliancesGenesisNatural ResourcesOverconsumptionProlonging Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Ask every politician and leader: What are your plans to end poverty? What are your plans to protect the climate? What are your plans to eliminate nuclear weapons? To answer these correctly is to bring love into action.” EndsActionAsksAnswersLeaderPovertyPlansPoliticianProtectWeaponsClimateNuclearNuclear Weapons Author:Jonathan Granoff
“Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the homeless and family-less from abuse and destitution, fair and equitable distribution of land, integrity in the judicial system, humility, simplicity and morality in the government (as opposed to wealth, women and weapons), etc. etc. If you want that kind of society, you need to be faithful to the living God.” KindWealthJusticePoorCompassionPovertyHumilityMoralityIntegrityProtectAbuseSimplicityFaithfulHomelessRefugeeJudicialBeing Faithful Author:Christopher J. H. Wright
“There are a lot of Egyptians who live below the poverty line and are preoccupied with meeting basic needs. Therefore, we have to create tangible benefits from nature conservation. Only through economic incentives will we convince people to protect habitats, wildlife, geological formations, cultural heritage sites, etc. We need local communities to cooperate with us, not against us!” PeopleCommunityPovertyEconomicProtectMeetingsConvinceConservation Author:Mindy Baha El Din
“In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.” LongFatherHoursLinesPovertyStruggleProtectChicagoVentureAutomobileBankruptcyLong HoursWorking Long Hours Author:Radhanath Swami