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"If
poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment
and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those
symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community."
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Barack Obama |
The international
trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of
the poor.'
-- Pope Paul VI
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By
the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans
will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time
tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make
sense.
-- Brad Pitt
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An
imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
-- Plutarch
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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.
-- Natalie
Portman *
Small
loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor
can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can
be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth
again.
-- Natalie Portman |
He who oppresses
the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich--both come
to poverty.
-- Proverbs 22:16
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How
unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing
ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support
school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful
programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for
all.
-- Bonnie Raitt
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test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who
have enough; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-- Franklin
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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
"Extreme poverty
is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism."
-- Jeffrey Sachs
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"The key to ending
extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the
ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest
of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary
to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. "
--
Jeffrey Sachs
"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
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
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 The rich
do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they
need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic
ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build
on itself. But it must get started.
-- Jeffrey
Sachs
The
essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme
poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its
own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address
any of the public health crises that Africa faces.
-- Jeffrey
Sachs
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"The
United States has more people living in poverty than
at almost any time in the modern history of our country.
I believe that in a democratic, civilized society
none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation.
We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We
need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not
cut them."
~ Sen.
Bernie Sanders
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"When
the rich make war, it's the poor that die."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I
attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people
can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly
undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.
-- Amartya Sen
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"We
know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have
to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their
studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents."
-- Shakira
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"The
greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty."
-- George
Bernard Shaw
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
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is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We
have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for
it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own
salvation, for our own humanity.
-- Martin
Sheen *
We
think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the
most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third
World… and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World
here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.
-- Martin Sheen
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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
"It's
outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor;
It's outrageous,
the crimes some human beings must endure..."
-- Paul
Simon |
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Somewhere near you,
somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter,
clothing or simple kindness.
-- Tony Snow
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Most
of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy,
weak states, internal strife, and so on.
-- George
Soros |
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I
am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while
thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great
man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of
buildings for the poor
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 
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Unions have been
the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government
a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic
mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and
benefits up is disappearing.
-- Andy Stern, SEIU President
