poverty Quotes

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.