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.

This would be a declared total war, not upon any human enemy but upon the brute forces of poverty and need. The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperative effort among nations, can be fortified, not by weapons of war but by wheat and by cotton, by milk and by wool, by meat and timber and rice.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.