Ending Poverty Quotes - Page 4

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

Nelson Mandela

Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty, Justice

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Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

Ralph Bunche

Education, Peace, Freedom

"Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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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.

Desmond Tutu

Children, Real, Educational

Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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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.

Martin Sheen

Pain, Emotional, Common Humanity

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Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.

Nelson Mandela

Country, Commitment, Justice

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Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

Kathleen Blanco

Education, Jobs, Thinking

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Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

Edward Kennedy

Poverty, Should

"America Back on Track".

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It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

Victoria Woodhull

Country, People, Poverty

Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Impending Revolution”, p.18

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I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

Ruth Manorama

Justice, Society, Poverty

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Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.

Jeffrey Sachs

Truth, Survival, United States

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A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.

Marlo Thomas

Children, Cancer, Health

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It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not a reduction, but an end-to absolute poverty...I have always found that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can make a huge difference.

Jeffrey Sachs

Powerful, Years, Differences

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Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written.

Jeffrey Sachs

Morning, Drinking, Yesterday

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All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing.' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response.

Jeffrey Sachs

Years, Effort, Heartless

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw

Evil, Poverty, Crime

Major Barbara (1907) preface

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Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

Nelson Mandela

Love, Life, Family

Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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

Plutarch

Freedom, Tyrants, Economic Inequality

"When Inequality Isn't" by John Mauldin, www.forbes.com. March 29, 2014.

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...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.

Kofi Annan

Time, Rights, Humanity

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Live simply so that others may simply live.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual, Simple, Diversity

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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.

Ed Begley, Jr.

Simplicity, Needs, May

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Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

Kofi Annan

Poverty, Prowess, Threat

"What’s Poverty Got to Do With It?" by Freeman Osonuga, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2013.

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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 . . .

Nelson Mandela

Justice, Overcoming, Fundamentals

Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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

Kofi Annan

Family, Community, Political

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Power, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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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.

Nelson Mandela

Men, Justice, Overcoming

Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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