“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
“Americans don't like poverty. Americans don't like things old. Americans don't like urban violence. We have all the problems everyone else has that people like to pretend exist only in Detroit.”
Jerry Herron
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent”
Plato
“It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening of custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving poor... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”
Michael Harrington
“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
