Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.