There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .
As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.
Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.
As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.