A Quote by Winnie Byanyima

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

Winnie Byanyima

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Winnie Byanyima
Ugandan - Politician
Born: January 13, 1959

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

Nicholas Johnson

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

Pierre Omidyar

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

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

Nelson Mandela

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

Arancha Gonzalez

The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

Van Jones

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

John Bishop

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

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Stephen Hawking

If we walk down the sidewalk of any street in America a significant number of the people we pass by, if we dug into what they're going through in their lives, they're carrying burdens that they don't talk about but they're extremely heavy and painful. And so, one of the secrets of the human condition is that suffering binds people together. And when you go through something agonizing, others who know what you're feeling because they've been through it will so often reach out to you and connect with you, and give you strength and lift you up.

Al Gore

Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.

John Barrasso

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

What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

Winnie Byanyima

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

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

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

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