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We deal with individual people in the smallest and most obscure and suffering villages in the desert and in the jungles of Africa, and we've had programs in 80 different countries on the Earth for the poorest and most destitute people in the world, and that has been, I'd say, far more gratifying personally because we actually interact with families and with people. – Jimmy Carter	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The dry zone communities have historically remained among the poorest on the island and changing climate patterns will further impact monsoon rains and possibly worsen droughts, by providing more water, the project will enhance the earning capacity of people dependent on agriculture. – Lance Gore	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In disasters, you have piles and piles of rubble, and the rubble is waste. If you are rich, you buy more bricks and rebuild your home, but what happens if you are poor ? In disasters it is the poorest people who live in the weakest houses and they loose their homes first. I thought, what if you recycled the rubble to build back better homes for poor people ? – Gerard Steijn	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I told him first two things; we are all concerned about climate change and the next sentence I said is, we are most concerned about the poorest three billion who had the least to do with this and are going to suffer the worst consequences, the Pope gave me a disarming smile, and then they said, the Holy Father wants to know what he can do about it. So I told him, 'In your speeches if you can please include us people to be better stewards of the planet.'. – Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Our home is being ruined, and this damages everyone, especially the poorest, i therefore make an appeal for responsibility, on the basis of the task that God assigned to the human being in creation :' to tend and to keep' the' garden' in which He placed him.'. – Pope Francis	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Enormous consumption in some rich countries have repercussions in some of the poorest places on Earth. – Pope Francis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We think that if even the smallest nation or the poorest country can develop an INDC, there should be no excuse from any country to say (they) cannot, there is a moral obligation that we have to do this. – Bubu Pateh Jallow	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Despite multiple summits to debate these issues, there's a shocking lack of global leadership to deliver genuine, life changing commitments for the world's poorest and hardest to reach, new global goals which could set out the roadmap to end extreme poverty will be worth little if leaders fail to back them with an ambitious financing plan. – Eloise Todd	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The fact that the prevalence of obesity continues to increase for the poorest children and that that’s not true for wealthier children is a real problem. – Cockrell Skinner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change… that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem. – David Frank	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The poorest decisions that we make are the ones we make under pressure or compulsively. – Jacqueline Schaffer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We need better tools to deal with this new threat, but since TB primarily affects the poorest and most vulnerable in society, there is little commercial incentive to develop new drugs. – Nick Herbert	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The administration is strongly committed to the long-term reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, we are also fully committed to ending public financing for the most polluting power plants overseas, except in the poorest countries, and oppose language that would hinder implementation of the president's Climate Action Plan. – The White House	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are also fully committed to ending public financing for the most polluting power plants overseas, except in the poorest countries, and oppose language that would hinder implementation of the president's Climate Action Plan. – White House spokeswoman Jennifer Friedman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Femicide is part of the big increase in violence in general in Brazil. The underlying causes are discrimination against women and inequality, and in Brazil black women are the poorest and the most discriminated against. – Nadine Gasman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The poorest farmers are the ones who need access to insurance most, safety nets are needed to reduce and manage the risks from disasters. – Richard Choularton	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The people that are hit the hardest are not the ones causing the climate change, that's the important message. The poorest people in the world are emitting the least amount of carbon, (yet) they're the ones who have to adapt dramatically to these changes. – David Molden	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Even though the conditions in many public housing developments are in dramatic need of improvement, we do know that public housing provides an important source of stable and affordable housing, particularly for the poorest of the poor. – Danya Keene	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We need a permanent arrangement to help the poorest of the world. – Ian Fry	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest. – Jan Egeland	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Their preference for the smallest and poorest was the reflection and measure of their unconditional love of God. – Pope Francis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Even those living in the most remote communities in Liberia, where Ebola has not been detected, are suffering the economic side effects of this terrible disease, Relief efforts must focus not only on those directly affected by the virus, but also on those in the poorest communities for whom market access, mobility, and food security continue to get worse. – Ana Revenga	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If the poorest, most vulnerable countries can't be accompanied in their transition to sustainable development, then there will be no binding agreement. – Francois Hollande	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone. – John Brown	added by anonymous 10 years ago

We deal with individual people in the smallest and most obscure and suffering villages in the desert and in the jungles of Africa, and we've had programs in 80 different countries on the Earth for the poorest and most destitute people in the world, and that has been, I'd say, far more gratifying personally because we actually interact with families and with people.

– Jimmy Carter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The dry zone communities have historically remained among the poorest on the island and changing climate patterns will further impact monsoon rains and possibly worsen droughts, by providing more water, the project will enhance the earning capacity of people dependent on agriculture.

– Lance Gore

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In disasters, you have piles and piles of rubble, and the rubble is waste. If you are rich, you buy more bricks and rebuild your home, but what happens if you are poor ? In disasters it is the poorest people who live in the weakest houses and they loose their homes first. I thought, what if you recycled the rubble to build back better homes for poor people ?

– Gerard Steijn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I told him first two things; we are all concerned about climate change and the next sentence I said is, we are most concerned about the poorest three billion who had the least to do with this and are going to suffer the worst consequences, the Pope gave me a disarming smile, and then they said, the Holy Father wants to know what he can do about it. So I told him, 'In your speeches if you can please include us people to be better stewards of the planet.'.

– Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our home is being ruined, and this damages everyone, especially the poorest, i therefore make an appeal for responsibility, on the basis of the task that God assigned to the human being in creation :' to tend and to keep' the' garden' in which He placed him.'.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Enormous consumption in some rich countries have repercussions in some of the poorest places on Earth.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We think that if even the smallest nation or the poorest country can develop an INDC, there should be no excuse from any country to say (they) cannot, there is a moral obligation that we have to do this.

– Bubu Pateh Jallow

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Despite multiple summits to debate these issues, there's a shocking lack of global leadership to deliver genuine, life changing commitments for the world's poorest and hardest to reach, new global goals which could set out the roadmap to end extreme poverty will be worth little if leaders fail to back them with an ambitious financing plan.

– Eloise Todd

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The fact that the prevalence of obesity continues to increase for the poorest children and that that’s not true for wealthier children is a real problem.

– Cockrell Skinner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change… that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem.

– David Frank

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The poorest decisions that we make are the ones we make under pressure or compulsively.

– Jacqueline Schaffer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We need better tools to deal with this new threat, but since TB primarily affects the poorest and most vulnerable in society, there is little commercial incentive to develop new drugs.

– Nick Herbert

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The administration is strongly committed to the long-term reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, we are also fully committed to ending public financing for the most polluting power plants overseas, except in the poorest countries, and oppose language that would hinder implementation of the president's Climate Action Plan.

– The White House

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are also fully committed to ending public financing for the most polluting power plants overseas, except in the poorest countries, and oppose language that would hinder implementation of the president's Climate Action Plan.

– White House spokeswoman Jennifer Friedman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Femicide is part of the big increase in violence in general in Brazil. The underlying causes are discrimination against women and inequality, and in Brazil black women are the poorest and the most discriminated against.

– Nadine Gasman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The poorest farmers are the ones who need access to insurance most, safety nets are needed to reduce and manage the risks from disasters.

– Richard Choularton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The people that are hit the hardest are not the ones causing the climate change, that's the important message. The poorest people in the world are emitting the least amount of carbon, (yet) they're the ones who have to adapt dramatically to these changes.

– David Molden

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Even though the conditions in many public housing developments are in dramatic need of improvement, we do know that public housing provides an important source of stable and affordable housing, particularly for the poorest of the poor.

– Danya Keene

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We need a permanent arrangement to help the poorest of the world.

– Ian Fry

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

– Jan Egeland

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Their preference for the smallest and poorest was the reflection and measure of their unconditional love of God.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Even those living in the most remote communities in Liberia, where Ebola has not been detected, are suffering the economic side effects of this terrible disease, Relief efforts must focus not only on those directly affected by the virus, but also on those in the poorest communities for whom market access, mobility, and food security continue to get worse.

– Ana Revenga

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If the poorest, most vulnerable countries can't be accompanied in their transition to sustainable development, then there will be no binding agreement.

– Francois Hollande

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.

– John Brown

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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