A Quote by John H. McWhorter

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

John H. McWhorter

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John H. McWhorter
American - Scientist
Born: 1965

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

Rush Limbaugh

Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.

Arancha Gonzalez

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

Martin Sheen

You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few cents, or by reducing student debt slightly. These might be necessary components of a larger anti-poverty program, but you have to accept they are pieces of a much larger puzzle.

Sasha Abramsky

Comic Relief funds projects that help lift people out of poverty.

John Bishop

The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.

Pope Francis

We measure poverty by what I believe is a very, very crude concept. We actually measure poverty by trying to get some kind of an estimate of the minimum expenditures on food that are required to maintain health, multiplying that number by three, and saying that's the level of poverty. And it's a very crude, inaccurate arrangement.

Milton Friedman

As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an NGO and say, "Tell me about the good work that you're doing and introduce me to the poor people who represent the kind of help you give." It serves to streamline the storytelling, but it gives you a lopsided cosmos in which almost every poor person you read about is involved with a NGO helping him. Our understanding of poverty and how people escape from poverty, in any country, is quite distorted.

Katherine Boo

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Leila Janah

I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

Hans Rosling

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Nicholas Johnson

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Michael Franti

Educated and productive young people are needed to help #? LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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

It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not a reduction, but an end-to absolute poverty...I have always found that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can make a huge difference.

Jeffrey Sachs

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