Paul Emile Leger Quotes

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

What must a poor nation do when its very sustenance depends on the remains and bits that the nations gracefully throw them, once they have had their fill…. Our planet is rich enough to provide for all of us, so why this tragic war for life which has been clouding our lives for generations?

It is an insult to a starving people to offer them religion; it is an insult to a starving man to teach him metaphysics.

… all governments have the moral duty to do everything possible to ensure humanitarian assistance to those suffering because of … conflict, both within and beyond the country’s borders.

If we look at the day-to-day suffering of the Venezuelan people, that's not about numbers: it's about human beings.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated.

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

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

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

We must embark on a bold new program for ... the improvement and growth of undeveloped areas. More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery .... For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of these people.

We don't do the poor any favors by respecting the sensitivities of bad rulers who oppress their own people.

Our time has experienced greater technological progress than ever existed before, and yet we are faced with the fact that world-wide poverty, hunger, death of children, unemployment, misery and the destruction of nature have not abated but rather to some extent increased. Many peoples are threatened with economic ruin, social disarray, political marginalization and national collapse.

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

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries