Ending Poverty Quotes - Page 3

• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.

  Barack Obama

  Healing, Home, School

  "Obama Says He, Too, Is a Poverty Fighter". Speech at the Town Hall Education, Arts & Recreation Campus, Washington, DC, www.washingtonpost.com. July 19, 2007.

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• The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

  Maria Montessori

  Society, Poverty, Steps

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• Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.

  Roger Moore

  Giving Up, Keys, Government

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• The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Feet, Keys, Needs

  Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime”, p.388, Penguin UK

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• I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

  James Wolfensohn

  Children, Peaceful, Development

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• Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

  James Wolfensohn

  People, Today, Poverty

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• Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

  Frederik Willem de Klerk

  Education, Ignorance, Racism

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• Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Children, Rights

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

  Dennis Banks

  Spiritual, Foundation, Looks

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• Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

  George Soros

  Government, Democracy, Investing

  "Philanthropist Under Fire". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. March 1, 2004.

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• Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, War

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• It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.

  Edward de Bono

  Country, People, Leader

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• Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.

  John Travolta

  Country, Hunger Poverty, Stronger

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• There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. 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. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Knowledge, Mean

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• The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Health, Essence, Addresses

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• The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

  William James

  Fear, Civilization, Class

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.334, Library of America

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• It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

  Roger Moore

  Luxury, Debt, World

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

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Happiness, Success

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Compassion

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Education, Money, Powerful

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

  Emma Thompson

  Thinking, Tyrants, Gaps

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• 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.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

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• Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

  Russell Simmons

  Educational, Knowledge, Inspirational Running

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• The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Successful, Feet

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