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“What does “fighting against poverty” mean ?”
Joséphine Ouédraogo (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It must do everything in its power to avoid becoming trapped in classic development strategies which place emphasis on aid, finance, social and economic investments and the top-down approach – strategies championed by those who believe themselves to be experts in the fight against poverty.”
Joséphine Ouédraogo (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What are the distributional implications of halving poverty in South Africa when growth alone is not enough.”
Fiona Tregenna wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poverty is a problem that all of us feel sorry about. Through harmony we have to work together for the good of this world.”
Francis Leo Braganza (1922–2011) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Asian Bishops Offer Reflections on Theology of Harmony Meetings (19 July 1988) Union of Asian Catholic News
“I realized when I was in my first year of university that lifting people out of poverty first and foremost begins with modernizing agriculture and providing access to nutritious and adequate food to all. That is the basis and building block for any development and progress.”
Segenet Kelemu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must do all we can to increase the opportunity of women to grow, to defend, protect, and facilitate children's sound, physical and psychological development through promotion of activities to alleviate poverty.”
Lateefah Durosinmi (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But why would women of African descent suffer so much more from pre-eclampsia than other women? ‘There was an assumption in Africa that there was a socioeconomic reason, like poverty,’”
Annettee Nakimuli wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Improving education and moral disciplines so that the new generations have more alternatives for the future. To get them out of the poverty in which they are living and create a new mentality.”
Ezinne Ukagwu (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gaza has become the priority of the state... the government does not want to solve the domestic problems... with this order, the downfall of the regime will be certain... Iranian's priority is not shawls and scarves but corruption and poverty.”
Mohammad-Taqi Akbar-Nejad wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should make no distinctions, but implement the higher principle, namely living together harmoniously. We must especially heed the concern of poverty and free expression which are violated by certain super-imposed structures.”
Alphonsus Augustus Sowada (1933–2014) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Asian Bishops Offer Reflections on Theology of Harmony Meetings (19 July 1988) Union of Asian Catholic News
“The crying need for the moment in this country, as in America, is a gospel of poverty to cope with the gospel of riches that is vitiating society.”
E. V. Lucas (1868–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Contentment with poverty is Fortune's best gift: Riches and Honour are the handmaids of Disaster.”
Fu Xuan (217–278) said by 278 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Gentle Wind" (tr. Arthur Waley, 1922)
“Populism and opportunism are the order of the day and all manner of insincerities abound – none of which bring us any closer to finding ways to solve the real problems of the day – poverty, hunger, unemployment, our lack of solidarity, community and ethics, the need for better systems of accountability and governance.”
Angela de Jesus (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I came to papa in 2019 to visit with a friend of mine, and that's when I discovered that there was extreme poverty in the village.”
Dora Moono Nyambe (1992–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I stopped looking at art for a while, actually. It’s no longer this holistic thing that you’re looking at. It’s a statement. It’s about poverty, it’s about the global crises, post-colonial this, that. Tick box, tick box, tick box. It’s got all these fucking issues and I’m just looking at shit. There’s no kind of material engagement.”
Tracey Rose (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Evangelicals are unbelievably dogmatic and conservative, even extremely conservative, on issues like abortion and homosexuality... At the same time, on questions of world trade, poverty reduction, and multicultural togetherness, they tick more to the left.”
Thomas Schirrmacher (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For refugee and displaced families who are observing the holy month far from their homes, faced with poverty, hardship, and uncertainty, the coronavirus pandemic adds another burden to their daily lives.”
Nikoletta Samonas (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The four things that come to mind when people think of Africa are population, problems, poverty, and promise unfulfilled – headline media reports on the continent. But that’s not the whole story,”
Aisha Augie-Kuta (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are six (6) founding members who, at first, randomly found opportunities to talk. Later, we convinced ourselves that we had to do something to "help the country" outside the framework of our professional activities, in order to make our small contribution to the fight against poverty. But what to do?”
Sika Bella Kaboré (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As we all know, the problems of inadequate shelter, health care, education, poverty and unemployment among young people can lead them all too easily into crime. Ignoring their plight thus carries tremendous social and economic costs.”
Anna Tibaijuka (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At times, I cried because I knew about poverty but when I experienced it for the first time, it became real. During takes and getting my make-up done I’d literally just start crying because the story felt so real.”
Nunu Khumalo (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women are the face of poverty, gender-based violence and continuous marginalisation. However, the majority of registered voters are women.”
Nobuntu Hlazo-Webster (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To achieve prosperity, everyone has to have a seat at the table when decisions are made. And there is no more important voice as that of youth. From unemployment to poverty to child marriage to violence, just to mention a few, we are the ones on the ground grappling with these issues”
Vivian Onano (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Consequently, the cities will find themselves unable to accommodate the increasing number of country people who are likely to live in substandard housing, which will in turn exacerbate poverty and crime and place considerable strain on their infrastructure, especially schools and hospitals”
Soumaya Naamane Guessous (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I know for sure child marriage is a guarantee for poverty among girls in my country and I want it to end. No ifs or buts”
Seodi White first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘No ifs or buts’: Child marriage needs to be abolished in Malawi, once and for all,March 3, 2015,by Seodi White
“I decided I’m going to dedicate my life to dealing with injustice, just because I don’t like it when a structure or system puts others in poverty, puts others in a position of inequality”
Seodi White wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In this country, to get ahead in life, to beat poverty, you need education”
Seodi White first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lawyer fights ‘widow sex’ tradition in Malawi,March 21, 2013,by Robyn Curnow and Jenni Watts, CNN
“All these grotesque incongruities between the richness of the world perceivable by smell and the poverty of language were enough for the lad Grenouille to doubt that language made any sense at all.”
Patrick Süskind (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But why does the Pd leave peace, work, the fight against poverty to others?”
Rosy Bindi (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Humanity can be saved and this Pale Blue Dot transformed into a really good place to live, at least without poverty and wars, then not by people who see life as worthless and spend it dreaming of mansions of gold in an imaginary world, but by people who don’t flee from reality and are guided not by primitive mythological beings, but by reason: freethinkers.”
Paulo Bittencourt (1892–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the heart of Aleppo, I declare to the world that our war with tyrants has ended, and our battle against poverty has already begun.”
Ahmed al-Sharaa (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there is poverty anywhere, anything can happen.”
Emeka Ike (born 1967) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: INTERVIEW: APC, PDP are Nigeria’s biggest problems – Emeka Ike, Premium Times (Nigeria), 11 December 2021.
“Mexico is a land of contrasts. Tropical heat and perpetual snow; inordinate riches and abject poverty; aboriginal Indians and twentieth century millionaires; a constitution and a state of continual anarchy; superstitiously religious, and yet pagan and savage.”
Andrew Edward Breen (1863–1938) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Daughter of Mexico (1916)
“It is very worrisome to note how insecurity has crippled agriculture, while threatening the education and health of our children and women, and these have continued to widen the net of poverty and inequality among people of the north and indeed the entire country.”
Namadi Sambo (born 1954) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Northern insecurity has crippled farming, education – Ex-VP Namadi Sambo. 9 September 2024, Punch Newspaper.
“I still stand by my suggestion that any election conducted under the present 1999 Constitution cannot and will not produce new leaders with new ideas, rather any election conducted with the 1999 Constitution will merely result in recycling people who have brought Nigeria to grinding poverty, unemployment, under-funded education, and insecurity.”
Afe Babalola (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The socio-economic rights guaranteed in the Constitution have to be made justiciable in the interest of the masses. This must be accompanied by a commitment to address the challenges of poverty, insecurity, unemployment, corruption and infrastructural decay.”
Femi Falana (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Instead of waiting for 2015 we call on all our oppressed people to learn from the Academic Staff Union of Universities by resorting to strikes and other forms of civil disobedience to force the ruling class political parties to make funds available NOW for education, health, housing, job creation and poverty elimination.”
Femi Falana (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The descendants of the sleeping on the pavements of are paupers. We speak of poverty as being abject, extreme, dire, genteel; crippling, unmitigated, relative. It can be all of these, but it is always the last.”
Sybille Bedford (1911–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Girls in Zimbabwe face numerous challenges, including gender-based violence, child marriages, school dropouts, poverty, and limited access to sexual and reproductive health services”
Ekenia Chifamba wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No country can progress if its politics is more profitable than its industries. In a country where those in government are richer than entrepreneurs, they manufacture poverty.”
“We would use merit to employ, dramatically reduce poverty and return Nigeria to a place of strategic relevance with high value”
“Moreover, 63% of Nigerians live in multidimensional poverty, which is about 150 million people, the highest number in the world, facing deprivations in health, education, and living standards, while it is only 3.9% in China; meanwhile, China’s population is about seven times larger than ours.”
“We will also seek to unite our nation by pulling our people out of poverty, and creating a new sense of nationalism and patriotism.”
“A nation's poverty is directly related to the quality of its leadership.”
“The future of Nigeria lies in education, health and pulling people out of poverty.”
“Sometimes sickness is good, it reshapes your life. Sometimes poverty is good, it helps your life. Sometimes failure makes you to reorder your life. It is not the end of your life.”
Ayo Fayose (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will simply say that being a philanthropist or being a charitable person is more spiritual than physical. I think it is something that is innate with one’s spirit. I love giving, I hate injustice and I hate poverty, so I try to fight these two evils.”
Rochas Okorocha (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I love about WaterAid is that while we are absolutely passionately committed to doing everything we can in terms of poverty eradication.”
Barbara Frost (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can't wait for solutions to end poverty – we need action NOW.”
John Roger Stephens (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let not thy hand be tied up to thy neck, neither open it with an unbounded expansion, lest thou become worthy of reprehension, and be reduced to poverty.”
George Sale (1680–1736) said by 1736 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source