Park Chung-hee Quotes

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

… mankind will no longer passively submit to crushing poverty with its effects of death, disease, and decline.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.