Best World Poverty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can God be pleased by the vast and increasing inequities among us? Is he not grieved by our arrogant accumulation, while Christian brothers and sisters elsewhere languish and die? Is it not obligatory upon us to see beyond the nose of our own national interest, so that justice may roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream? Is there not an obligation upon us to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God is we want to live in his wonderful peace?”

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Book:Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World

Source: Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World

“We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.”

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Author:Nicholas Stern

“These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

“Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.”

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Author:Edward de Bono

“This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .”

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Author:Edward de Bono

“If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.”

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Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

“Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”

“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.”

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Book:A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy

Source: A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy

“It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.”

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Author:Thomas Pogge

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.”

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Author:Dennis Banks

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.”

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Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

“We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.”

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Author:Peter Singer

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”

“I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.”

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Author:Emma Thompson

“It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. 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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

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Book:Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

“When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in - you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we're going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.”

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Author:Ian Mcewan

“Live simply so that others may simply live.”

“Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.”

“There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.”

“There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty”

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Author:Andrew Cuomo

“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

“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.”

“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

“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.

“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

“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

“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 does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign”

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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.”

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