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“Under our mission to give back, our three areas of focus are education, poverty eradication and empowerment.”
Idia Aisien (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Government and its partners work together for the development of villages in remote areas and build communities free of poverty and food insecurity. One such good partners is Spark Microgrants whose work enables different communities to design and implement their social impact projects.”
Assumpta Ingabire first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.ktpress.rw/2022/02/local-govt-commends-spark-microgrants-support-in-developing-rural-communities/ ( KT Press ,February 18, 2022 )
“I also dismiss critics who say that Rwanda, which still has a considerable percentage of people living in poverty, has the resources to sustain refugees from other parts of the continent.”
Germaine Kamayirese (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Personally, all I want is the best for Nigeria. Anyone who will stop insecurity, poverty and all sorts of indices that often make people avoid Nigeria, I am totally in support of the person.”
Uche Azikiwe (born 1947) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her readiness to support any of the candidates who would put an end to insecurity and poverty. November 24, 2022
“There is poverty in the entertainment industry and it’s time to say, ‘talent is not enough.’ We need to acquire skills to complement with whatever talent we have.”
Mabel Oboh (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the masses have a better understanding of economic policies, it will increase their participation and their ability to take advantage of these policies for their benefit thus reducing poverty in the society.”
Angela Emuwa wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without economic transformation, without alleviating poverty, you’ll still be struggling.”
Nelly Mukazayire (born 1982) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Minister Mukazayire reflects on her leadership path and sport’s role in Rwanda’s transformation (Igihe, 11 August, 2025).
“I speak the truth, that the system is built on a lie. They simply do not want to be exposed. The lie is that everything is well in Rwanda and I just talk about [the reality] which is the high level of unemployment, the high level of poverty, the disappearances, the killings, all that, and they are not ready for that to be exposed.”
Diane Rwigara (born 1981) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diane Rwigara: Woman faced 22 years in jail for criticising her government news .sky.com (7 December 2018)
“I've said this before, but if you're doing an MLK day service project consider bringing King-level analysis to it. Don't just serve lunch at a soup kitchen, interrogate why millions of ppl live in poverty in the first place. King's legacy isn't about charity, it's about justice.”
Clint Smith (writer) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jan 20, 2020 On Twitter
“Coming from southeast Ohio it's a very impoverished area and the poverty rate is almost two times the national average. There's so many people there that don't have a lot and I'm up here for all those kids in Athens and Athens County that go home to not a lot of food on the table, hungry after school. You guys can be up here, too.”
Joe Burrow (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not enough has been said about the needs of the poorer and more disadvantaged members of society. Poverty has to be an election issue.”
Christopher Saunders (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Social justice should be a priority for voters”: urges Bishop Saunders chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (6 October 2004) Fides News Agency
“We also need an integrated and innovative approach to respond simultaneously to a whole range of inter-related challenges, such as health, demographic changes, migration, scarce resources, climate change and biodiversity loss, extreme poverty and hunger.”
Klaus Iohannis (born 1959) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: National intervention of the President of Romania, Mr. Klaus Iohannis, at the high-level segment of the 76th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation" (2021)
“(about humor) It's a survival technique, too. People who are in poverty, people who are in very difficult situations and in pain, have to develop humor or die of despair.”
Linda Hogan (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've got a big bee in my bonnet about food poverty. I'm a big believer that we do need food banks, but not to the degree we've got them. Every do gooder is starting these little projects to make themselves feel good.”
Lee Anderson (born 1967) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tory MP claims UK will only have 'big problem' when Wetherspoons is empty" Walesonline (3 October 2022)
“In the South African society there is an increase of the temptation to resort to violence to deal with any problem. There are still many people living in poverty, who are losing hope for a better future. Especially among the young unemployed despair prevails. I think we should solve problems by involving all: government, mining companies, trade unions and churches.”
Kevin Patrick Dowling (born 1944) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maybe tomorrow the agreement for the Marikana mine " says to Fides the Bishop of Rustenburg (28 August 2012) Fides News Agency
“Economic globalization as far as it is affected by selfishness and sin causes globalization of poverty.”
Aloysius Ferdinandus Zichem (1933–2016) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Intervention at the Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops (2 December 1997) Holy See Press Office
“I reached the age of 23 in 1921. Having been a cowherd, a child labourer, a dyke worker and a soldier, I had been through extreme poverty and experienced the hard life of workers, peasants and soldiers. In the process, I cultivated some simple class feelings for the oppressed.”
Peng Dehuai (1898–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s important to do as much as I can to publicize the ideas of language, the importance of family, the importance of history, and also the importance of changes that have happened, that are happening now. Always political issues come up, issues of the environment, issues of education, of poverty, drug use, alcoholism. All of those things are a part of it, too.”
Luci Tapahonso (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.”
John Mahama (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I spent the last ten years working in Bidar, and there was a lot of work to do. We set up a tight network of social programmes which were never enough though. People here live under the yoke of poverty.”
Robert Michael Miranda (born 1952) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pastoral work set against poverty and Hindu fundamentalism (2005) Asia News
“As flag-bearers, we are not unmindful of the heavy burden and responsibility that we carry. We are not unmindful of the huge expectations of our people, young and old, man and woman, able and disabled. Nor are we unmindful of the misery and poverty that the generality of our people have had to endure almost forty years after Independence.”
Bola Tinubu (born 1952) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inaugural speech as Governor of Lagos State.(May 1999)
“Education shall be given the highest priority because it is the greatest weapon against poverty.”
Bola Tinubu (born 1952) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.channelstv.com/2023/05/29/full-text-of-president-tinubus-inaugural-speech/.While discussing social development, Tinubu stressed the importance of education as a tool for reducing poverty and expanding opport…
“We shall remodel our economy to bring about growth and development through job creation, food security and an end of extreme poverty.”
Bola Tinubu (born 1952) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://fmino.gov.ng/inaugural-address-by-president-bola-ahmed-tinubu-delivered-on-29-may-2023/.Presenting his economic agenda, Tinubu identified economic growth, employment, food security and poverty reduction as centr…
“There is nothing divine about poverty. It is a man-made problem that can be eliminated with clearly thought out social and economic policies.”
Bola Tinubu (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it. Economic inequality is growing and the kind of education system a country has will have a major impact on the capacity to respond to this.”
Folawe Omikunle wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The challenge South Africa is having is poverty and unemployment and the biggest barrier to this is the skills gap.”
Joan Fubbs (born 1944) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fubbs in May 2007 speech on Treasury budget vote]
“What is happening to us right now is a catastrophe. How did we end up in this hell? One person flashing nuclear weapons like keys to an expensive car took it upon himself to determine the future of my children, our children. He decided that the future of children in Russia is poverty, isolation and war.”
Ekaterina Kotrikadze (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women are forgotten individuals with disproportionate level of income due to poverty and deprivation.”
Dzodzi Tsikata (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Africa is in a pole position to lead in the green transition and to reduce energy poverty,”
Fatima Denton (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is time that we must make and take bold actions. Our actions must solve problems in multiple ways and create solutions that are multifaceted. We must seek to achieve SDG 1 and 2,” CS Omamo said while referring to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty and hunger.”
Raychelle Omamo (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poverty is no excuse. Development aid has to be linked to economic development,”
Auma Obama (born 1960) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Julius Bar 22 January 2020
“The main focus should be put on programs that will help eradicate poverty amongst the citizens so as to boost the speed at which the nation develops.”
Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda (born 1955) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kabaka urges politicians to uplift electorates’ welfare in new year’s message, Article by Prossy Kisakye, KFM, 29 December 2022
“My poverty and environmental advocacy here has to do with listening to the soft voice of the silent majority who are peaceful, those who are ready for non-violent solution to crises, especially hapless women whose voice will never be heard because their cries cannot be projected above the slumps in their immediate environment.”
May Ifeoma Nwoye (born 1956) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prof Nwoye speak on environmental advocacy in 2016.
“It is important for women to be aware of their common lot. It is important for women to stand together and rise together to meet our common enemies—illiteracy, poverty, crime, disease, and stupid, unjust laws that have made women feel so helpless as to be hopeless.”
Julia Mavimbela (1917–2000) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Julia's address at the 1975 regional conference of the National Council of African Women
“Someone has to do something about the pain and the poverty, and I’ve been given a good set of resources to do it. So I get stuck in and I get very motivated by watching the change take place in people’s lives.”
Ingrid Andersen (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Left Unity was formed a few months ago to work towards such co-operation. The task is considerable. We are used to working and campaigning within our own small organisations. The proliferation of radical newspapers is witness to that. But the need is urgent. If we don't act together, the poverty, exploitation and alienation will get worse.”
Ken Loach (born 1936) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Labour is part of the problem, not the solution" The Guardian (27 March 2014)
“Agriculture is how I got here. Agriculture sustained my family, but it was not about food. It got my family out of poverty.”
Agnes Kalibata first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dr. Agnes Kalibata: Possibilities that become real in Africa through agriculture Kilimo kwanza ( 29 April 2019 )
“I learnt that it’s actually possible to use agriculture to fight poverty.”
Agnes Kalibata first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Born in Rwanda, raised in Uganda as a refugee, Agnes Kalibata is changing African farming agra.org (September 20, 2026)
“A pig can actually have qualities to get someone out of poverty if properly looked after.”
Emma Naluyima (born 1980) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Emma Naluyima: In praise of pigs (2 March 2016)
“Friends and comrades! on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panamá, and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south.”
Francisco Pizarro (1478–1541) first seen 1527 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to his followers before the expedition to Peru (1527), quoted in William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas (1847; 1935), p. 125
“Writing [came] out of the situation that I was in, which was poverty, homesickness, being unskilled, uneducated. So out of that misery you begin to write things down. It wasn’t like: I’m writing a novel. But this kept growing, this stuff. Then it started to become ‘writing’ because you have to think and construct and shape and so on.”
Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Uganda needs an effective and efficient infrastructure to support economic growth, poverty eradication, social development and competition in the global market. As you very well know, no economy of a country can stand without proper infrastructure.”
Jessica Alupo (born 1974) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Uganda has a house deficit of 2.4 million units. Article by New Vision, 26 November 2021.
“The time has come for a revitalized multilateral mentality to meet effectively and firmly the challenge of the new global and interconnected threats of resurgent nationalism and ethnic strife, international terrorism, illicit drug-trafficking, the smuggling of nuclear materials, the deliberate degradation of the global environment and poverty.”
Árpád Göncz (1922–2015) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the UN General Assembly" (1995)
“In the comfort of our offices, let us not forget that majority of our people live below the poverty line.”
Goodluck Jonathan (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She had her sights set on being an English major. Owen admired the quixotic nature of her plan, its blatant impracticality, its vow of poverty.”
Jeffrey Ford (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My story is a typical grass to grace and from poverty to financial independence or success. Typically, mine is just from zero to hero, a nobody to somebody.”
Deloris Frimpong Manso (born 1982) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I was a broke woman; I was poor – Delay shares a story of how she started her journey in life, Ghana Web, 27 May 2023.
“We are not going to eradicate poverty by bombing people. ("Dear John: A Letter to a Friend Following 9/11")”
Kathleen Alcalá (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The COVID‑19 pandemic is having devastating impacts by worsening inequality and poverty, jeopardizing the further implementation of the 2030 Agenda and compounding the existential challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. It also shows that global solidarity and international cooperation are needed more than ever.”
Munir Akram (born 1945) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at United Nations as President of the Economic and Social Council, 21 September 2020
“Capitalism with a human face would require the elimination of poverty... the reduction of inequality... the establishment of real true... ... a less stressful life. ...Economists disregard stress.”
John Komlos (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every day, people fall below the poverty line. When you have issues, no one can defend you because the people who should protect you are the ones abusing you. So what do you have to be happy about?”
Funmi Iyanda (born 1971) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Funmi Iyanda said Nigerians find little reasons to be happy, as those responsible for protecting them have engaged in abusing the people. Retrieved from Public Eye (@PublicEyeNg) 23/02/2021