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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.