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I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

I can't eradicate poverty, but at least for the people around me, I can help make sure no child is denied a dream.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.