Poverty Quotes

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Mother Teresa

Missionary, Nun

“It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.”

America Poverty India

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Muhammad Yunus

Social Entrepreneur

“The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.”

Way Poverty Financial

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Muhammad Yunus

Social Entrepreneur

“What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?”

People Doe

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Muhammad Yunus

Social Entrepreneur

“A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.”

People Culture

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Morgan Freeman

Actor, Narrator

“Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty”

Poverty Ladders Literacy

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Mother Teresa

Missionary, Nun

“To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.”

Able News

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Mother Teresa

Missionary, Nun

“The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.”

Poverty India

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Muhammad Yunus

Social Entrepreneur

“I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people.”

People Teaching Poverty

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Mother Teresa

Missionary, Nun

“How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!”

Animal Angel Poverty

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Melinda Gates

Philanthropist, businesswoman

“Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.”

World Poverty Around The World

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