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Extreme Poverty Quotes

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. Peter Singer
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
Somehow the fact that only three or four hundred years ago these skeletons had been men with their way to make in the world like any modern upstart, and that they had made it by acquiring houses and offices, garters and ribbands, as any other upstart does, while poets, perhaps, and men of great mind and breeding had preferred the quietude of the country, for which choice they paid the penalty by extreme poverty, and now hawked broadsheets in the Strand, or herded sheep in the fields, filled... Virginia Woolf
Groucho Marx quote: "Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state..."
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. Groucho Marx
Roger Moore quote: "Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to..."
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Roger Moore
Jasmine Guy quote: "That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside..."
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty. Jasmine Guy
We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000. Alberto Fujimori
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. Al Franken
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
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
Groucho Marx quote: "I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. Groucho Marx
Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. Arthur Sheekman
Jeffrey Sachs quote: "The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme..."
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. Jeffrey Sachs
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this. Bono
It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence. Thomas Friedman

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