Extreme Poverty Quotes - Page 2

• We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

  Bill Gates

  World, Poverty, Chance

  "3 Myths That Block Progress For The Poor". Bill and Melinda Gates' 2014 Annual Letter, www.gatesfoundation.org. January 20, 2014.

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• By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Self, Years

  "3 Myths That Block Progress For The Poor". Bill and Melinda Gates' 2014 Annual Letter, www.gatesfoundation.org. January 20, 2014.

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• A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Years, Ideas, Leader

  "New Oxfam report says half of global wealth held by the 1%" by Larry Elliott, Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2015.

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• What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

  Oliver Stone

  Venezuela, Done, Poverty

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• La heterosexualidad se ha impuesto a las mujeres por la fuerza y de forma subliminal. Sin embargo, en todas partes las mujeres se han resistido a ella, a menudo a costa de tortura física, encarcelamiento, psicocirugía, ostracismo social y pobreza extrema.

  Adrienne Rich

  Heterosexuality Is, Cost, Poverty

  Adrienne Rich (1994). "Sangre, pan y poesía: Selected Prose 1979-1985", p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Ayudar a convocar a las partes interesadas a nivel mundial para establecer un conjunto de objetivos mensurables, procesables y consensuados centrados en la pobreza extrema tiene un valor incalculable.

  Bill Gates

  Goal, Poverty, Helping

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• Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!

  John Adams

  Peace, Ignorance, Men

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• We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth.

  Enrique Peña Nieto

  Educational, Fighting, Growth

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

  Aristotle

  True Friend, Character, People

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.160, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  World, Disease, Poverty

  "Bill Gates: No more poor countries by 2035" by Simeon Bennett and Laura Marcinek, www.sfgate.com. January 21, 2014.

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• The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

  Charles Koch

  Way, Poverty, Principles

  Fuente: freebeacon.com

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• There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

  Shane Claiborne

  Poverty, Urban, Appalachia

  "Entrevista con Shane Claiborne: Abrazando los márgenes". Entrevista con Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. 17 de noviembre de 2015.

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• India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

  Manmohan Singh

  Democracy, India, Poverty

  "Entrevista del Dr. Manmohan Singh con Charlie Rose". Entrevista con Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. 1 de marzo de 2006.

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• El servicio de la India significa el servicio de esos millones de personas sumidas en la pobreza, la ignorancia y la enfermedad. Ver que durante mi vida podemos suavizar esas duras aristas de la pobreza extrema y desencadenar una nueva revolución económica y social que haga aflorar la creatividad latente y el espíritu emprendedor de nuestro pueblo, eso es lo que siento, creo.

  Manmohan Singh

  Maldad, Creatividad, Ignorancia

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• One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in places - Washington, D.C., feeding the homeless, the hurting, going to broken boys and girls. So culturally I understood all different aspects of life - from extremely wealthy to extreme poverty, socioeconomic differences, ethnic differences.

  Paula White

  Girl, Hurt, Boys

  Fuente: culteducation.com

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• Era vergonzoso que, después de Haití, Colombia fuera el segundo país más desigual de América Latina. Pero hemos conseguido algunas cosas; la desigualdad está bajando, y bajando rápidamente. La economía en crecimiento nos ha proporcionado los fondos para financiar una política social muy progresista que ha reducido la pobreza extrema. Tenemos la tasa de inflación más baja de todos los países de América Latina y la tasa de crecimiento más alta.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  País, América, Latina

  "'Hacer la guerra es más popular que negociar'". Entrevista con Juliane von Mittelstaedt y Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. 21 de mayo de 2014.

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• Tienes pobreza extrema y alta criminalidad y tienes que admitir que la gobernanza del régimen de Kabul ha sido deficiente y ha ido perdiendo legitimidad popular. Hay una policía corrupta, por no hablar de la falta de vivienda y de empleo. Los problemas son enormes.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Policía, Kabul, Pobreza

  "Entrevista exclusiva en la web: Khaled Hosseini, autor de Kite Runner, hablará sobre la crisis de los refugiados en un acto en Lafayette". Entrevista con Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. 25 de abril de 2009.

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• The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and the Polish did in generations before. A lot of the Irish came here back in the turn of the 19th to the 20th century because there were no opportunities and no options at home for them. There were no jobs and there was extreme poverty. They came here to be able to send money back home.

  Marty Walsh

  Jobs, Home, Opportunity

  Fuente: www.mtv.com

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• Es un hecho objetivo que si se quieren resolver algunos de estos enormes problemas de la pobreza extrema, hay que incluir a las mujeres. Son ellas las que lo conseguirán.

  Matt Damon

  Pobreza, Hechos, Hechos

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• Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty - the realities of access to water and food - which creates the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources, and that is going to accelerate in the future.

  Rajiv Shah

  War, Reality, Long

  "Rajiv Shah: Our aid work is for the American people". Interview with Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.

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• La pobreza extrema no es sólo una condición de necesidades materiales insatisfechas. A menudo va acompañada de un estado degradante de impotencia.

  Peter Singer

  Needs, Poverty, States

  Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Country, Hands, Economic Models

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• If we continue on the trend we’re on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of dollar-and-a-quarter a day poverty and back from the brink of hunger and malnutrition. But if we accelerate our progress from 3 percent annual reduction to over 6 percent and focus on key turnarounds in some difficult countries, we could get a 90 percent reduction. We could essentially eliminate dollar-and-a-quarter head count poverty.

  Rajiv Shah

  Country, Keys, People

  Rajiv Shah's Remarks at The Aspen Institute, 2012-2017.usaid.gov. August 1, 2012.

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• Hay que pasar por ciclos de extrema pobreza y sufrimiento durante un tiempo; están acostumbrados a eso... Se levantan temprano, corren duro, descansan, beben té, salen y vuelven a correr duro. Wehn Simon Dirorie se levanta a las 4 de la mañana. Yo soy dedicado, pero no tanto.

  Keith Brantly

  Correr, Madrugar, Té

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• La forma de ley que propongo sería la siguiente: En un estado que desea salvarse de la mayor de todas las plagas -no la facción, sino la distracción- no debería existir entre los ciudadanos ni pobreza extrema ni, de nuevo, riqueza excesiva, pues ambas son productivas de grandes males... . Ahora bien, el legislador debe determinar cuál debe ser el límite de la pobreza o de la riqueza.

  Plato

  Law, Evil, Would Be

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.269

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