I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

- Mathieu Kerekou

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belon…

- Mathieu Kerekou

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

- Mathieu Kerekou