*
"Peace
can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and
where individuals and nations are free." -- 14th Dalai
Lama
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. --
14th Dalai Lama
*
Where
justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where
any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress,
rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. -- Frederick
Douglass
*
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. DuBois
*
Just
because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child
of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition. --
Marian Wright Edelman
*
"I
believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million
Americans living in poverty." -- John
Edwards
But
will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our
leaders - whether we step up and sustain our moral commitment as the country's
conscience would naturally want us to do. -- John
Edwards
While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America.
We should begin by returning to a promise once kept and now broken: If you work
full-time, you shouldn't have to raise your children in poverty. -- John
Edwards
...stand
with me today and pledge to work for an America that doesn't ignore those in need
and lifts up those who wish to succeed. Pledge to hold your government accountable
for ignoring the suffering of so many for far too long. And pledge to do your
part to build the America that we have dreamed of - where the bright light of
opportunity shines on every person - an America where the family you are born
into, or the color of your skin, will never control your destiny. -- John
Edwards
*
To
live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities,
and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well
as by others who are poor and desperate. -- Barbara
Ehrenreich
*
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. -- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
A pacifism which
can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the
continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
*
There's
enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.
~ Mohandas Gandhi
*
There's
enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not
for everyone's greed.
~ Mohandas
Gandhi
*
We’re
looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems
spring from that condition... doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS,
famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our
problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty,
not poverty itself. -- Bob
Geldof
But
the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence
is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product
of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized
by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat,
robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence the
poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that
we go and build a different social order. -- Gustavo Gutierrez
Poverty
is a scourge that must be overcome, and this can only be accomplished through
concerted international efforts involving effective partnerships between developed
and developing countries and between government, the private sector and civil
society. -- Dr. HAN Seung-soo, Former President of the UN General Assembly
We
must work to ensure the human dignity that comes with a life free from hunger
and poverty." -- Julian R. Hunte Former President of the UN General Assembly
