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Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

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Pierre Omidyar
French - Businessman
Born: June 21, 1967

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

Nicholas Johnson

Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation.

Elliott Bisnow

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Jessica Jackley

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

Ban Ki-moon

Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.

Eric Schneiderman

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

Winnie Byanyima

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

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

Sherrod Brown

Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in local development and live together in peace. This happens only when work is decent - environmentally sound and productive - provides fair wages, and is underpinned by rights

Sharan Burrow

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

Muhammad Yunus

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.

Martin Luther

As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.

Koichiro Matsuura

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

Jeffrey Sachs

Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.

Muhammad Yunus

A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.

Pope Francis

Most people don't see themselves as sitting on that bottom rung as a defense mechanism. The more they blame poor people for their poverty, the further they feel from being in the same place. Even the working poor who qualify for food, childcare and housing benefits don't see themselves as such.

Stephanie Land

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