Global Poverty Quotes

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  • So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.

    Girl   Teenage   Drama  
    "Half The Sky: How to Change the World". Book by Nicholas D. Kristof, September 8, 2008.
  • Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  • Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.

    Stars   Poverty   Sides  
  • I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

    Blue   Sweaters   People  
  • Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.

    Fighting   Tools   Cost  
  • 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.

  • I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

  • Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act

    Future   Believe   Hands  
  • I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

    Night   Issues   Care  
    Source: paulsohn.org
  • 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 (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182
  • There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

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

    Twitter post from Jan 21, 2016
  • 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 (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
  • You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

    Wipe   Poverty   Stage  
  • Live simply so that others may simply live.

  • Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

    Real   Cutting   Thinking  
  • That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.

    People   Would Be   World  
    Source: aalbc.com
  • The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

    CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.
  • 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.

  • If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

    Future   People   Vision  
    Gordon Brown's speech to foreign finance and environment ministers on climate change, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2005.
  • You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

    P.J. O'Rourke (1991). “PARLIAMENT OF WHORES A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”
  • Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

    Input   Poverty   Sides  
    "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.
  • 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.

    Peace   Military   War  
    Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953
  • 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's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.
  • True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

    Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
  • Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

    Fighting   People   Water  
    "GDP Not Good Enough: The Need for a New Metric for Growth in a Changing World" by Pallavi Roy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2016.
  • I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.

  • The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

    Technology   Tools   News  
  • Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

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