Quotes of: Extreme-poverty Keyword

After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.

Lawrence Bender

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

Viktor Yanukovych

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Kim Campbell

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

Charles B. Rangel

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Jean de la Bruyere

Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates.

Li Keqiang

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Cat Stevens

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

Derrick Rose

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Charles Eastman

Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

Dennis Prager

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Bill Gates

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Carlo Collodi

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

H. Rap Brown

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

H. Rap Brown

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Daniel Defoe

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

Dave Foley

You can't change generational poverty by sitting on your ass. Let's get to work!

Damen Lopez

I saw the poverty; I say the prosperity. Both have fundamental problems.

Debasish Mridha

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

Jerry Doyle

There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

Kailash Satyarthi