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“Housing is the key to solve different issues, including poverty and youth development.”
John Lee Ka-chiu (born 1957) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hong Kong's likely leader pledges to "solidify" its international role" in Yahoo (29 April 2022)
“The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.”
Nyla Ali Khan (born 1972) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir", Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org, September 15, 2016.
“There are a lot of problems up here. Policemen should protect the people – and here, when you see them, you get fucking scared. There’s no freedom of speech, too. Even when people want to say something, they get scared and keep silent. There’s no change among authorities – Russia is moving back to the USSR, the Stalin times. Poverty is still the main problem.”
Face (rapper) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My great worry is the problem of poverty…Instead of prisons, I would have schools, art and vocational academies, free trade, free love, the abolition of marriage and the substitution of private property for public property.”
Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That so many people get their knickers in a bunch about other people's purported "laziness" while being grossly misinformed themselves has always struck me as a tremendous double-standard. Personally, I prefer the thought of my taxes going to some poverty-stricken place in rural America (where a majority of welfare dollars are spent) than to crooked contractors in Baghdad. But that's just me.”
Jen Sorensen (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best and most reliable weapon of peace is steady economic development. For developing countries and countries with economies in transition, the main factors for success in economic reforms and poverty eradication programmes consist in obtaining free access to world markets, in liberalizing trade and resolving external debt problems.”
Leonid Kuchma (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Energy poverty is first and foremost a political failure which requires an adequate political response which tackles the root causes of injustice while ensuring a fair and sustainable future for all. Energy is a public good, but we need to start treating it as such – because we haven’t been doing so.”
Mick Wallace (born 1955) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Taxing windfall profits of energy companies (debate)" (6 July 2022)
“I am very interested in Lethwei since my childhood and know it will help us to escape from poverty.”
Tun Tun Min (born 1991) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Ethnic Muslim fighter eyes Myanmar’s kickboxing crown (November 30, 2018)
“I grew up in a predominantly Black and Latine community where gang violence was common. My parents grew up in El Salvador, and when they took me to visit, I was struck by the level of poverty I saw. I saw that no matter where in the world my people go, they're exposed to varying levels of injustice. And I knew I had to do something about it, so I decided to write.”
Yessenia Funes wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Education, particularly for girls, is a catalyst for reducing child and maternal deaths and lifting people out of poverty.”
Graça Machel (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prosperity creation is the sole route to the elimination of poverty. And to create sustained prosperity, you have to create something truly world class.”
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I knew that there were so many talented people out there who could do great things if only given a chance. However, due to extreme poverty, stigma, and marginalization,… many of them could not even get simple jobs. This was devastating for me, as I had grown up with them. They were my neighbours, my family members.”
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To truly understand that attaining accessible education, accessible healthcare, and ending poverty, means ensuring that we are cognizant of the voices and lives of people like me; whether it's people who are brown skinned, African, Indigenous, Queer identifying, disabled”
Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile (born 1988) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: #TurnItAround UN SDG Action Campaign | Katlego K Kolanyane-Kesupile (Botswana) (September 2020) Retrieved 26/07/2022
“When millions of people remain mired in poverty, no matter how hard they work, our whole economy suffers. Consigning millions of people to the economic margins has a serious adverse effect on the economy for all of us.”
Robert Rubin (born 1938) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert Rubin: For 20 years, CDFIs have made neighborhoods better", CDFI Institute (March 6, 2014)
“Attention-grabbing headlines claiming that opioids (or any other drug) are killing people are wrong. Ignorance and poverty are killing people, just as they have for centuries.”
Carl Hart (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s only recently that I have been able to talk about some of the things that I saw here. I mean as far as poverty – because it was just too difficult.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“# With leadership and a sense of purpose, we can lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years Muhammadu Buharis democracy day speech”
Muhammadu Buhari (1942–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful.”
Muhammadu Buhari (1942–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.”
Muhammadu Buhari (1942–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I wonder," Bob Cole said in his strange tremulous voice, "is whether the people down here have to live this way so that we can live the way we do. We have to believe it's no, don't we? We couldn't face up to it otherwise. Because if most of the world lives in this kind of poverty so that we can have our goodies and our extra protein ration - what does that make us?”
Robert Stone (novelist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They are using our poverty in order to get their agenda fulfilled and that is what we say is contrary to the principles of genuine love and the principles of the family.”
Joseph Mukasa Zuza (1955–2015) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Resist Western influences says Bishop Zuza of Mzuzu in Malawi (2014) Vatican Radio
“when one perceives that the saloon is not the cause that menaces the safety and welfare of society, that it is not the cause of poverty and crime, one must, if honest with one's self, and if possessed of a truly revolutionary spirit, transfer activities to other fields.”
Lena Morrow Lewis (1868–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Human survival, in a situation of resources degradation, hunger, poverty and uncontrolled climate migration, will make conflict an inevitable result.”
Nisreen Elsaim first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Climate change 'Biggest Threat Modern Humans Have Ever Faced' World-Renowed Naturalist Tells Security Council, Calls for Greater Global Cooperation. ( February 23,2021)
“We have no business allowing importation of drugs that we can produce here because all we are doing is importing poverty. There has to be industry where the young pharmacists can fit into after graduation.”
Stella Chinyelu Okoli (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“women constitute the majority of our population in Africa. Therefore, when we talk about poverty, suffering and underdevelopment, we are talking mostly of women.”
Joyce Banda (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women constitute the majority of our population in Africa. Therefore, when we talk about poverty, suffering and underdevelopment, we are talking mostly of women. That’s why I believe that the promotion of gender equality, women’s empowerment, improvement of maternal health and achieving education for the girl child is a transformational strategy to achieving development.”
Joyce Banda (born 1950) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The case for women’s leadership: Joyce BandaWomen's World Banking(August 5, 2013)
“Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty … that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business”
Joyce Banda (born 1950) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joyce Banda: 'I want Malawians to say our country became a better place'The Guardians(December 17,2012)
“PR MPs don’t have a dedicated budget like the Constituency Development Fund, yet there are numerous social issues in the constituency, including poverty.”
Nicola Watson (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A big lump blocked Mugo’s throat. Something heaved forth; he trembled; he was at the bottom of the pool, but up there, above the pool, ran the earth; life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful; only for a moment; how dared he believe in such a vision, an illusion?”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Africa actually enriches Europe: but Africa is made to believe that it needs Europe to rescue it from poverty. Africa's natural and human resources continue to develop Europe and America: but Africa is made to feel grateful for aid from the same quarters that still sit on the back of the continent.”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There has been a way of seeing Africa in terms of poverty and conflict which has become a kind of shorthand for the continent that still persists today.”
Zeinab Badawi (born 1959) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: One of Africa's best kept secrets - its history", BBC News (1 July 2017)
“Everywhere in Nigeria today, there is widespread concern that poverty and unemployment continue to foster intense insecurity across the nation. Several of us in the senate are not indifferent. I want to reassure you that I will continue to work with my progressive colleagues to fight and agitate for legislation that will lead to the creation of jobs for our youths.”
Oluremi Tinubu (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He, who works hard, will stand before kings because I strongly believe that there is no nobility in poverty and it doesn’t matter where you’re from; immediately you substitute recklessness for diligence, your true potential becomes a reality.”
Funke Adesiyan (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As we know, Africa is urbanizing at an extraordinary rate – with tens of thousands moving to cities every day. Half of the continent is expected to be living in cities by 2030 bringing the familiar challenges – unplanned urbanization, informal settlements, poverty, inequality, unemployment humanitarian crises, conflict.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Foreign direct investment key to Africa’s development, UN-Habitat report says. Tralac. (July 2018)
“In our quest to address the issue of urban poverty by giving aid, we have not adequately tapped in to the potential existing even in informal settlements.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CORE OF RISK REDUCTION. Prevention Web. (July 2015)
“It is good that we are agreed on the need to sit down and talk. But how can we talk with the excessive poverty and excessive affluence we see in our urban centres?”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether”
Paula Brackston wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the youth of today, let us liberate ourselves from the bondage of poverty, strive for unity and fight anything that can separate us.”
Rosemary Mbabazi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have cooperatives formed by the women aimed at eradicating poverty in the communities. There are several Avega Agahozo offices in most of the districts in the country. We have a total of 25,000 widows and orphans but 19,000 of them are active members.”
Chantal Kabasinga first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kabasinga Chantal on AVEGA, The New Times (11 April 2012)
“It is unthinkable that these conflicts are provoked only by local interests. Obscure powers aiming for the region's resources exploit ethnic frustrations and their corollary, poverty, to foment conflicts. They kindle ethnic hatred setting fire to powder kegs while standing in the shadows. Manipulation is a dreadful weapon.”
Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi (1930–2007) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Obscure powers exploit ethnic frustration to steal regional resources” Cardinal Etsou Archbishop of Kinshasa affirms in a statement on wars in Africa’s Great Lakes region. (22 May 2004) Fides News Agency
“It is our collective responsibility to break the culture of silence around women’s human rights violations; feminisation of poverty and women’s exclusion from decision-making arenas. Let us demand accountability everywhere and together we shall make meaningful change happen,”
Bunmi Dipo Salami (born 1967) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Quote taken from her statement to celebrate International Human Rights Day 2020 (December 2020)
“As per my experience, I strongly believe that agriculture can be a thriving sector and play a key role in lifting rural populations out of hunger and poverty.”
Gérardine Mukeshimana (born 1970) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: African leader Gerardine Mukeshimana joins UN rural development agency IFAD as Vice-President Further Africa, (August 30, 2023)
“The agriculture sector is set to create employment, satisfy our food and nutrition needs by 2022, and reduce the poverty rates from 39.1% to 15% by 2024.”
Gérardine Mukeshimana (born 1970) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The 4th strategic plan for agriculture RATIN ( 27 February 2019 )
“Investing in women means investing in sustainable development. The return on investment isn't just being able to beat poverty and inequality but building stronger institutions, economies and entire communities.”
Gérardine Mukeshimana (born 1970) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Investing in women and girls makes economic sense and accelerates progress for millions of people IFAD ( 7 March 2024)
“Investing in women is not just the right thing to do; it is an essential element for improving food security, reducing poverty, and achieving prosperity in rural communities.”
Gérardine Mukeshimana (born 1970) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: FAO, IFAD and WFP Join Forces to Celebrate International Women's Day 2025 IFAD (6 March 2025)
“Our partnership with Sweden is not just financial. It is a shared commitment to tackle poverty and hunger, empower women, adapt to the realities of climate change, and engage with private sector.”
Gérardine Mukeshimana (born 1970) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EAT Forum: IFAD calls for investment in rural areas and food systems to feed the planet sustainably while creating jobs IFAD (3 October 2025)
“From IFAD’s earliest days, Japan has been a vital partner in our mission to transform food systems, fight poverty and malnutrition, and foster rural development.”
Gérardine Mukeshimana (born 1970) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: IFAD and Japan partner with the private sector to boost small-scale producers’ coffee production in Tanzania IFAD (20 September 2024)
“Our main mission is on how we [leaders] put emphasis on improving coordination and communication at all levels in the current development agenda and the second phase of the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS)”
Rose Mukantabana (born 1961) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/90766/National/parliament-ends-first-ordinary-session ( The New Times , September 19, 2026)
“Sadly, the combination of poverty and ignorance is toxic and deadly.”
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A child’s first teacher is its mother. Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.”
Peng Liyuan (born 1962) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: China’s Peng Liyuan named UNESCO envoy for advancing education of women, girls" in UNESCO (27 March 2014)