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Ending extreme poverty is possible.
Winnie Byanyima / Engineer
Extreme Poverty
Extreme
Ending
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Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.
Martin O'malley / Governor Of Maryland
Extreme Poverty
Extreme
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I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx / Comedian
Funny
Life
Work
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Poverty
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State
Worked
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America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.
Hugh Evans / Humanitarian
America
Critical
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Play
Poverty
Extreme
In The End
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
Jeffrey Sachs / Economist
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That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
Jasmine Guy / Actress
Extreme Poverty
Feel Good
Poverty
Good Me Feel Good
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Door
Good Feel Good Me
Resort
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Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
Roger Moore / Actor
Cease
Extreme Poverty
Frustrated
Poverty
Regard
Violence
Extreme
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Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine.
Tae Yoo /
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Famine
Hunger
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To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
Peter Singer / Philosopher
Extreme Poverty
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Reducing
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Aid
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Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme poverty.
Jay Inslee / Governor Of Washington
Chosen
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Persecution
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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
Bill Gates / Investor
Belief
Disease
Extreme Poverty
Mistaken
Poverty
Solve
World
Extreme
Harmful
Worse
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People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called Third World.
Juan Manuel Santos / President Of Colombia
Colombia
Extreme Poverty
Third World
World People Live
Extreme
World Live People
So-Called
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There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
Hans Rosling / Professor
Afghanistan
Burma
Extreme Poverty
Pakistan
Scary
Severe
Sub Saharan Africa
Extreme
Africa
Rural
Sub-Saharan
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You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.
Mark Takano / United States Representative
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Poverty
Extreme
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Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
Bill Gates / Investor
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Focused
Goal
Helping
Invaluable
Poverty
Actionable
Extreme
Establish
Measurable
Stakeholders
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We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.
Alberto Fujimori / Politician
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Poverty
Extreme
Drop
Improve
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
Daisaku Ikeda / President
Enjoyment
Extreme Poverty
Humane
Humane Way
People
Poverty
Rights
Life Impossible People
Extreme
Essential
Freedoms
Threatens
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I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.
Martin O'malley / Governor Of Maryland
Democratic Party
Extreme Poverty
Presidential
Extreme
Compete
Indeed
Nomination
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In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.
Jose Angel Gurria / Economist
Extreme Poverty
Mexico
Population
Extreme
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Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.
Jacqueline Novogratz / Entrepreneur
Despite
East
Extreme Poverty
Foreign Aid
Overwhelmed
Poverty
Remains
Extreme
Africa
Aid
Continue
Organizations
Foreign
Hundreds
Outpouring
Region
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By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.
Brad Pitt / Actor
Time
Died
Evening
Extreme Poverty
Poverty
Tomorrow
Extreme
African
By The Time
Concert
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I think that we are trying to move towards the First World slowly but surely. But we must do a good job for the people left way behind. That's why extreme poverty, for us, is a priority.
Juan Manuel Santos / President Of Colombia
Extreme Poverty
Good Job
Good World People
Extreme
First World
For The People
Slowly
Surely
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Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Paul Farmer / Medical Anthropologist
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Extreme Poverty
Health Care
Poverty
Promise
Standing
Extreme
Health Care See
Anywhere
Insurance
Limitations
Regardless
Sharp
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We want to be a country with a competitive edge in the world. And a country with a solid democracy. To do that, we need to attack the social problems, and extreme poverty is probably the worst of those.
Juan Manuel Santos / President Of Colombia
Extreme Poverty
Social Problems
Extreme
Attack
Edge
Solid
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Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. This is not an acceptable outcome.
Paul Polman / Executive
Acceptable
Climate
Climate Change
Development
Extreme Poverty
Millions
Poverty
Runaway
Sustainable Development
Extreme
Cause
Condemn
Sustainable
Fail
Meet
Outcome
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
Al Franken / United States Senator
Christian
Christian Right
Extreme Poverty
Global Warming
Hypocrisy
Poverty
Religious
Thinking
Voters
Extreme
Among
Tremendous
Global
Issue
Speaks
Warming
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There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.
Martin O'malley / Governor Of Maryland
Cities
Conditions
Disregarded
Extreme Poverty
Unheard
Breeds
Extreme
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This pandemic has provided an opportunity to reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems, that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.
Pierre Poilievre / Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Accelerate
Climate Change
Extreme Poverty
Inequality
Address
Efforts
Pandemic
Provided
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There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?
Gene Sperling /
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Firewood
Poverty
Take Care
Young Children
Extreme
Educating
No Question
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If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide adequate healthcare to those that can. Poverty will lead to more migrants seeking to move, whether legally or not, to rich nations.
Peter Singer / Philosopher
Adequate
Extreme Poverty
Healthcare
Including
Nations
Poverty
Rich
Seeking
Spread
Extreme
Rise
Allowed
Countries
Diseases
Lead
Legally
Problems
Provide
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The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
Ban Ki-Moon / Diplomat
Equality
Development
Dignity
Eight
Equity
Extreme Poverty
Human Dignity
Millennium
Our Time
Pledge
Poverty
Tackling
Extreme
Free
Established
Blueprint
Set
Measurable
Pressing
Targets
Uphold
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We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.
Noreena Hertz /
Denied
Despite
Enjoy
Exploding
Extreme Poverty
Globalisation
Next
Poverty
Relative
Riches
Rights
Unbelievable
Extreme
Advances
Communities
Increasingly
Inequalities
Poorer
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I think so much of my life had me growing up under extreme poverty and really challenging conditions, with having the police in my neighborhood and seeing the impact of over-incarceration. Having a father love up on me and remind of who I was, and my strength against those conditions, really shaped why I'm an organizer today.
Patrisse Cullors /
Conditions
Extreme Poverty
Impact
Neighborhood
Organizer
Poverty
Life Love Strength
Extreme
Shaped
Remind
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Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don't view them as equals.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Deny
Disillusioned
Economic
Extreme Poverty
International
Poor
Poor People
Poverty
Tiny
Best Hope Chance
Extreme
Aid
Became
Engage
Equals
Global
Increasingly
Loans
Studies
View
Suffer
Systematically
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Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.
Michelle Bachelet / President Of Chile
Chile
Country
Economic Growth
Economic Models
Equity
Extreme Poverty
Hands
Poverty
Return
Social Justice
Extreme
Ensure
Policies
Rid
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