Quotes of: Extreme-poverty Keyword

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

Jeffrey Sachs

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.

Jasmine Guy

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

Elliott Abrams

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide adequate healthcare to those that can. Poverty will lead to more migrants seeking to move, whethe...

Peter Singer

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

James A. Baldwin

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Paul Farmer

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

Hugh Evans

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

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

Roger Moore

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Mark Takano

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

Hans Rosling

Together we can remind them there are no excuses to sit back and watch the cycle of extreme poverty continue.

Auliq Ice

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot...

Michelle Bachelet

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

Daisaku Ikeda

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

Bill Gates

Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.

Bryant McGill

We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis of the poverty of wealth, we are able to establish the world map of the extreme wealth of poverty. These speaking maps of a ...

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.

Peter Singer