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Extremes are dangerous.

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

Poverty is unnecessary.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

Money can't buy poverty.