Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.

Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

Debt relief without the opening of markets will not relieve third world countries from their poverty.

In May 1961 when I took over power as the leader of the revolutionary group, I honestly felt as if I had been given a pilfered household or bankrupt firm to manage. Around me I could find little hope of encouragement. The outlook was bleak. But i had to rise above this pessimism to rehabilitate the household. I had to destroy, once and for all, the vicious circle of poverty and economic stagnation. Only by reforming the economic structure would we lay a foundation for decent living standards.

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

Can You Fight Poverty With A Five-Star Hotel?

… authors generally neglect that growth has lifted billions of people out of grinding poverty and that others may remain poor because of the developed world’s environmental concerns …

I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.

Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

India has to fight poverty, Pakistan too has to fight poverty, why don't we come together to fight poverty?

I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.

In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.