In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.
Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.
There are millions more people living in poverty today than the day that Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton at his side, stepped into the oval office.
