Poverty Quotes
God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
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