Fidel Castro Quotes

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

There are millions more people living in poverty today than the day that Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton at his side, stepped into the oval office.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

Half the people of the world are living on less than $2 a day.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

The world is full of smart, poor people.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The problems of the Third World—its poverty, its ignorance, its debt—never really seemed to affect Europeans and Americans. No longer. It's a little warmer than it used to be. The water is rising.

Poverty demoralizes.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

My people are still poor. They're still working class. All of the characters that I write about are inspired by the community that I'm from.

In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

A lot of the people that are poor take advantage of loopholes and pay no taxes.