End Poverty QUOTES

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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

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.
-- Norman Thomas

* 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

"Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term."
-- Peter Townshend

"We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live."
-- F.E. Trainer

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.
-- John Travolta

* 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 extended so obscenely on defense budgets would make a real difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and be given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives. -- Desmond Tutu

"The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve."
-- Vatican statement to the U.N., 1976

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

"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."
-- Bill Vaughan

* There's a moral convergence happening among religious leaders on the issue of poverty" -- Rev. Jim Wallis I've been supportive of the idea of government partnership with faith-based organizations and other non-profit organizations to do the work of fighting poverty. We've done it for years, overseas and here. I think it needs to be done. -- Rev. Jim Wallis "The Bible insists that the best test of a nation's righteousness is how it treats the poorest and most vulnerable in its midst." -- Rev. Jim Wallis

The freest government cannot long endure when the tendency of the law is to create a rapid accumulation of property in the hands of a few, and to render the masses poor and dependent.
-- Daniel Webster

* What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause! -- Walt Whitman

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.
-- James Wolfensohn

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope.
-- James Wolfensohn

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

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

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.
-- James Wolfensohn

* 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

Poverty is unnecessary. -- Muhammad Yunus My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty. -- Muhammad Yunus * "Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor." -- Muhammad Yunus

My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.
-- Muhammad Yunus

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
-- Muhammad Yunus

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