QUOTES
If
you want to eliminate hunger, everybody has to be involved.
"You
can't fix every problem, but what you can fix, you must."
"Part
of winning the war on terrorism is winning the war on poverty. We've had the wake-up
call. If we stand by and watch [Africa] go up in flames, the price won't be paid
solely in African lives."
This
is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up
in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In
these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make
friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice
is the surest way to get peace.
Do
we have the will to make poverty history?
On
trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity,
it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
It wouldn't
cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their
way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough
people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because
they can't afford the basics of survival.
Everywhere
I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who
live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders.
And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together
to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.
"It's
not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to replace it with the truth."
When
the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could,
and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
