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I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. -- Groucho Marx
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. -- Roger Moore
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. -- Bill Gates
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful. -- Bill Gates
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
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
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
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
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. -- Jeffrey Sachs
America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty. -- Hugh Evans
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. -- Jeffrey Sachs
The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade. -- Charles Koch
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty. -- Jasmine Guy
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty -- Jasmine Guy
We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule. -- Bill Gates
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid. -- Peter Singer
EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty. -- Ambrose Bierce
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. -- Plato
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. -- Peter Singer
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
Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
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
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At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. -- Jeffrey Sachs
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
Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways. -- John Legend
It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done. -- Matt Damon
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
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces. -- Jeffrey Sachs
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, whether legally or not, to rich nations. -- Peter Singer
The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time. -- Ban Ki-moon
We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer. -- Noreena Hertz
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written. -- Jeffrey Sachs
There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children? -- Gene Sperling
Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don't view them as equals. -- Leila Janah
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it. -- Kofi Annan
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. -- Jeffrey Sachs
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 of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice. -- Michelle Bachelet
Tomorrow is Now... If we act, 2015 can be a year for the history books. It can be the year that we put the world on the path to end extreme poverty; the year we place sustainability at the heart of our future; and the year that we agree that every person should be able to lead a life of dignity and opportunity. -- Kathy Calvin
Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. -- Kofi Annan
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty. -- Jeffrey Sachs
Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme. -- Elliott Abrams
India is a functioning democracy - despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course. -- Manmohan Singh
If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote. -- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end. -- Oliver Stone
There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing. -- Shane Claiborne
I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty. -- David Batstone
Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people. -- Bryant McGill
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy. -- Aristotle
The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty. -- Kevin Watkins
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it. -- Simone de Beauvoir
You cant 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
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty. -- Adrienne Rich

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