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International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet. -- Oscar Arias
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. -- Christine Gregoire
Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism. -- John O. Brennan
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. -- Charles B. Rangel
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. -- Martin H. Fischer
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education. -- Azim Premji
I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day. -- Marcy Kaptur
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace. -- Kailash Satyarthi
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't. -- Steven Soderbergh
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me. -- Little Richard
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. -- Kathleen Blanco
Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right. -- Ban Ki-moon
In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent. -- Michael Nutter
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life. -- Naveen Jain
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty. -- Lane Evans
We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education. -- Wendy Kopp
My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education. -- Jennifer Garner
The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education -- John Legend
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn. -- Elijah Cummings
Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can. -- M.F. Moonzajer
The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education. -- Barack Obama
No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty. -- George H. W. Bush
Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism. -- Malala Yousafzai
Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it. -- Julius Nyerere
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. -- Charles B. Rangel
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. -- Chris Van Hollen
Education is the best way to end the cycle of poverty and the exploitation of Children -- Radwan Chowdhury
African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent. -- Donald Trump
Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote) -- Kurt Hahn
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental. -- Sasha Grey
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information. -- Frederik Willem de Klerk
The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way. -- Vinod Khosla
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. -- Harri Holkeri
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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. -- Natalie Portman
People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education. -- Mohnish Pabrai
While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics. -- Sam Harris

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