We have the opportunity in the coming decade to cut world poverty by half. The practical solutions exist. The political framework is established. And for the first time, the cost is utterly affordable. Whatever one’s motivation for attacking the crisis of extreme of poverty—human rights, religious values, security, fiscal prudence, ideology—the solutions are the same. All that is needed is action.

~Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary General

Great social forces are the mere accumulation of individual actions.

~Jeffrey Sachs