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So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

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

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

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

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

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