William Graham Sumner Quotes

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

Government cannot solve our problems. It can't set our goals. It cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty or provide a bountiful economy or reduce inflation or save our cities.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.

There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations and underprivileged communities.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important progress has been made and millions of lives have been saved, but millions more could be saved.

Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

Our policy is not directed against any country or doctrine, but is directed against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and economic conditions in which free institutions can exist.