Jodie Evans Quotes

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

Once again the hopes of people of two nations are being smashed by weapons in the name of eliminating weapons. Let us abolish weapons of mass destruction at home. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction.

Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when its inconvenient to do so. And we have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

When an Indian meets a terrorist, we condemn this.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful.

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.