- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extreme Poverty Quotes
This page gathers extreme poverty quotes that connect hunger, health care access, and climate change to the daily reality faced across regions including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma, and sub-Saharan Africa. Several lines point to a global 2030 target for wiping out severe hardship as a benchmark still at risk. Together the quotes call attention to the scale and urgency of global hardship.
These extreme poverty quotes connect hunger, climate change, and health access across regions, a theme echoed in Care. Both highlight the human cost of unmet basic needs.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. This is not an acceptable outcome.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think so much of my life had me growing up under extreme poverty and really challenging conditions, with having the police in my neighborhood and seeing the impact of over-incarceration. Having a father love up on me and remind of who I was, and my strength against those conditions, really shaped why I'm an organizer today.
- Burma
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
- First Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020