Lee Hyeon-seo Quotes

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.

If it is held to be morally wrong and anti-social for one man to possess huge estates, which he may develop or not as he chooses, while hundreds of others nearby are relegated to landlessness, why should one people acquire, by similar accident of birth or achievement, a claim to an inordinate share of the good things of life and a right to exclude from them other less fortunate peoples, white, black, or yellow?

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven't been.

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.

When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.

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's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

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

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

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.

It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

Every country has a part that is undeveloped.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

Unless we labor to help others achieve a reasonable stake in society, we may find ourselves losing the society in which we have too great a stake.

A king of a large and fruitful territory there feeds, lodges, and is clad worse than a day labourer in England.