“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.”
Kofi Annan
“Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent”
Plato
““The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.” ―Mahatma Gandhi”
“To stop violence we have to stop poverty.”
Frank O'Gorman
“Our interest is really in Third World development. I believe that it's essential to solving the problems of poverty, violence, and environment, to have better education.”
Seymour Papert
“Things have never been worse than they are now in Haiti -- the violence, the misery, the poverty. It has been called a failed state. It is simply wrong that anybody should be returned to Haiti at this point.”
Steven Forester
