F. W. de Klerk Quotes

There is no peace in poverty

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

Complaint is poverty.

Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

Poverty is unnecessary.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.