Pope John XXIII Quotes

The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

Distribution of the wealth of the world is something for which no one sees a practical solution

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.

Here in the U.K., our government is committed to building a society that works for everyone - not just a privileged few. We must do exactly the same abroad.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they're deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.