International Day For The Eradication Of Poverty Quotes & Messages

International Day For The Eradication Of Poverty Quotes & Messages

The International Day For The Eradication Of Poverty

Is An International Observance Celebrated Each Year On 17 October All Over The World. The First Commemoration Of The Event Took Place In Paris, France In 1987 When 100,000 People Gathered On The Human Rights And Liberties Plaza At The Trocadéro To Honor Victims Of Poverty, Hunger, Violence, And Fear At The Unveiling Of A Commemorative Stone By Joseph Wresinski, Founder Of The International Movement ATD Fourth World.

17th October International Day For Poverty

You Can’t Get Rid Of Poverty By Giving People Money

You Are Only As Rich As Where You Come From, And Nigeria Has A Lot Of Poverty

As Long As Poverty, Injustice And Gross Inequality Persist In Our World, None Of Us Can Truly Rest.

Gratitude Is Riches. Complaint Is Poverty

Corruption Is Africa’s Greatest Problem. Not Poverty. Not Lack Of Riches. Not Racism

Poverty Was The Greatest Motivating Factor In My Life

Poverty Is Not Socialism. To Be Rich Is Glorious

“Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.”

— Kofi Annan

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

— Aristotle

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.”

— Eli Khamarov

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”

— Plutarch

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is enough.”

— Dr. Wess Stafford

“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”

— Coco Chanel

“To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor…it’s nothing.”

— Bono

“To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.”

— Jean Vanier

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

— Mother Teresa

“The Bible insists that the best test of a nation’s righteousness is how it treats the poorest and most vulnerable in its midst.”

— Jim Wallis

“History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

— Albert Einstein

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.”

— Edmund Burke

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nothing that you have not given away will ever truly be yours.”
— C.S. Lewis