F. W. de Klerk Quotes

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

There is no peace in poverty

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

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

The imperialists have also imposed on us an unjust economic order, and thereby divided our people into two groups: oppressors and oppressed. Hundreds of millions of Muslims are hungry and deprived of all form of health care and education.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be war, corruption, and imperfect institutions.

We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

The Negro family, battered and harassed by discrimination, injustice, and uprooting, is in the deepest trouble. While many young Negroes are moving ahead to unprecedented levels of achievement, many more are falling further and further behind.

Economic growth driven by large-scale infrastructure investments without equitable provision of education will leave hundreds of millions of people behind, exacerbating inequality, disillusion, and instability.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.

The truth is that Africa is like everywhere else. There are poor areas, there are rich areas, there is a middle class. Some of those areas are bigger in one country than another, and some countries have real problems that they're working through. But there's great people, good people and a small percentage of bad people - just like everywhere else.

There is no doubt that the people of Afghanistan have suffered for a long time. Generations have been lost to terrorism. We empathise with their yearning for peace.

Africa doesn't look like it's changed that much to me since I first went in '94. There is still a major economic divide, but the rights of Africans have changed and progressed.

It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery.

Imagine what Nigeria could do for Africa if it was also free of Boko Haram's violence.

In my opinion, peace has not come to America, to Nicaragua, or to El Salvador. A hungry people is a people without peace. If the demands of the people are not met, what kind of peace are we talking about?