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Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

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

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.