Mathieu Kerekou famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.
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Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.
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Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.
-- Mathieu Kerekou
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
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You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
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Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
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Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
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Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now." "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?
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Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.
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No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
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We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.
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