Ending Poverty Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Poverty, Danger

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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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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• Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Animal, Economic Inequality

  Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington, 16 January 1787

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• We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.

  Ted Trainer

  May, Poverty, Poor

  F. E. Trainer, Ted Trainer (1996). “Towards a Sustainable Economy: The Need for Fundamental Change”, Jon Carpenter Publishing

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• You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Giving Money, People, Libertarian

  P.J. O'Rourke (1991). “PARLIAMENT OF WHORES A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”

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• The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

  Dalai Lama

  God, Peace, Responsibility

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Race, Land

  The Souls of Black Folk ch. 1 (1903)

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• Hunger makes a thief of any man.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sad, Men, Hunger And Poverty

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Good Earth”, p.154, Open Road Media

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• Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

  Roger Moore

  Frustrated, Poverty, Violence

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• With poverty everything becomes frightful.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Poverty

  "Satires (Satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Feet, Keys, Ladders

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• Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

  Edward de Bono

  Compassion, People, Together

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• When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.

  Hillary Clinton

  Couple, Believe, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

  Patch Adams

  Mean, Excellence, Poverty

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• Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Challenges, Energy, Poverty

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