Winnie Byanyima Quotes

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important progress has been made and millions of lives have been saved, but millions more could be saved.

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

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

Do we have the will to make poverty history?

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Our policy is not directed against any country or doctrine, but is directed against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and economic conditions in which free institutions can exist.