Quotes on Global Poverty

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

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.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

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.

Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Live simply so that others may simply live.