Power devours everything: universal religions are eaten up by it; multinational business falls prey to it; democracy is trampled by it - Robert Muller
People are poverty-stricken whenever their income, even if adequate for survival, falls markedly behind that of the community - JK Galbraith, the Affluent Society, 1958
Other matters cannot be allowed to sidetrack us from this most important of world issues [poverty] - Bob Geldof
One of the big points is that when you are so poor and so isolated and desperate, markets are absolutely designed to ignore you entirely. They are not exploiting you. You offer them nothing. They leave you to die - Jeffrey Sachs http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-G8/poverty_2645.jsp
One child has died from poverty, conflict or disease every three seconds since the leaders of the world's richest nations met 11 months ago in Gleneagles, under pressure to make poverty history. The statistic has remained unaltered since the famous "click" commercials - Independent, 09/06/06 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article753715.ece
On present trends the target for the reduction of child deaths by 2015 will not be reached until 2115. Such is the awful cynicism that can lie behind the solemn "binding" word of so many political documents - Bob Geldof
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed - Herman Melville
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power - Seneca
Make people believe that we can send poverty to museums. When I talk about it, people laugh and say, "It's impossible." But when you don't believe something, you can't achieve it. You have to imagine and make that imagination achievable - Muhammad Yunus, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1929228-2,00.html#ixzz…
Lack of money is the root of all evil - George Bernard Shaw