“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
“As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality exist in our world, none of us can truly rest.” — Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa
“There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” — Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” — John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.” — Muhammad Ali, professional boxer
“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” — Grace Abbott, social worker
“Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.” — Bono, singer-songwriter and philanthropist
“Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum.” — Muhammad Yunus, entrepreneur
“It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.” — Rick Bragg, journalist
“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.” — Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa