"The billion people who wake up every..." - Quote by Bill Gates
The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.
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More on Poverty
“Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.”
“We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.”
“Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter.”
More on Inequality
“The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.”
“The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.”
“The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.”